run like clockwork

Idioms  

1. see like clockwork.

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Example Sentences

“This show has to run like clockwork,” Kapoor said.

From Los Angeles Times

“This show has to run like clockwork.”

From Los Angeles Times

Check-in and checkout usually run like clockwork: between 2 and 4 p.m. on the front end and around 11 a.m. or noon on the back end.

From New York Times

“This is a radical departure from development as a preprogrammed set of rules that run like clockwork,” says Thomas Zwaka, a stem-cell biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

From Nature

“There’s a daily routine which evolves around mealtimes, several outfit changes every day, sometimes five, and the queen likes everything to run like clockwork. The focus is on being outdoors and in the countryside walking, grousing, fishing and hunting.”

From Fox News