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What (who) is clock work - definition

INNER WORKINGS OF A MECHANICAL CLOCK, OR OTHER MECHANISM THAT WORKS SIMILARLY

Clockworks; Clock work; Clock works; Clockwork motor

clockwork

1.

A clockwork toy or device has machinery inside it which makes it move or operate when it is wound up with a key.

...a clockwork train-set.

ADJ: ADJ n

2.

If you say that something happens like clockwork, you mean that it happens without any problems or delays, or happens regularly.

The Queen's holiday is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute...

PHRASE: PHR after v

clockwork

¦ noun a mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.

Phrases

like clockwork very smoothly and easily.

clockwork

n. (misc.) to work like clockwork ('to work perfectly'); as regular as clockwork ('completely regular')

Wikipedia

Clockwork

Clockwork refers to the inner workings of either mechanical devices called clocks and watches (where it is also called the movement) or other mechanisms that work similarly, using a series of gears driven by a spring or weight.

A clockwork mechanism is often powered by a clockwork motor consisting of a mainspring, a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork gears, until the stored energy is used up. The adjectives wind-up and spring-powered refer to mainspring-powered clockwork devices, which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork

Examples of use of clock work

1. He attributed the accident to a round–the–clock work schedule and poor maintenance, and said a strike is possible if safety problems are not fixed.

2. The round the clock work by civil and military engineers have made it possible to re–open the blocked routes to the affected areas.

3. Prime Minister Gordon Brown will propose reforms including making today – 24/7 – a national day for celebrating volunteering and "social change" to represent the round–the–clock work done by carers and others.

4. In three days of around–the–clock work, troops have dug a 50–yard–wide channel running 300 yards long, CCTV said, without saying how much further work was needed.

5. So forgive him if his recent around–the–clock work schedule has dulled his brain a bit on some of the minor points made in Sunday‘s afternoon news conference.