Meaning:
If something happens like clockwork, it means that it happens predictably, without any problems.
Examples:
- Given time, we will have this facility open and happy and running like clockwork with access for all.
- Yet despite the fact that the time-space worlds are run like clockwork, there's human fickleness.
- You take the pill every day like clockwork, right?
- We went bankrupt the first of every month, like clockwork.
- The point is, my brilliant plan worked like clockwork.
- Every week like clockwork, up till 3 weeks ago.
- He's here once a week like clockwork.
- Pretty steady, now that I think about it, like clockwork.
- And he would ask me on a date, every week like clockwork.
- We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork.