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Old 11-Sep-2007, 09:12
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Default Re: Like clockwork

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Originally Posted by Tdol View Post
I like it when other languages have the same idioms or sayings.
I like it too when words in different languages depend on the same image, like Italian cavalletto (tripod) and English 'clothes-horse'.

There's also the expression '[as] regular as clockwork': "He catches the 7.45 every morning, regular as clockwork".

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