like clockwork

Nor had she reported receiving the packets of poultice that Miss Mortimer sent Penelope every few months, like clockwork.

When it comes to quintessential fall produce, apples and pumpkin take center stage like clockwork.

They followed the same routine, every morning, like clockwork.

The retired cop, the newlyweds, the sword enthusiast — they return every school year like clockwork.

In 2005, the butter-wouldn’t-melt Gibson finally agreed to pose nude for Playboy, which had “called us like clockwork about every two years or so” since her 18th birthday.