Like clockwork

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Tdol

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".

b

[seba_870701]

Originally Posted by Anna Xpomoba

In the Russian we have absolutely the same expression

In Polish as well.. :D

[synide]

ha
i'm xperienc'g it

[Huda-M]

It should have been - like atomic clock - its probably the best clock i've heard of- :)

[osvaldo423]

It`s always on right time

[nitikasnv]

Hi,

clockwork :A mechanism of geared wheels driven by a wound spring, as in a mechanical clock.

And now the meaning of like clockwork:With machinelike regularity and precision.


Ex: The project proceeded like clockwork.


Thanks

[RoseSpring]

We have the same one in Arabic. Very interesting indeed!

[thenerd12]

Interesting idiom!

[JarekSteliga]

Originally Posted by Tdol

Interesting- I'll remember that.

So do we in Poland!

[JarekSteliga]

Originally Posted by BobK

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".

b

I have one remarkable example of this happening between English and Polish.

A crane (a bird) = żuraw
A crane (a machine for lifting heavy objects) = żuraw
Craneberry (I suppose a kind of berry cranes more than other birds are fond of) = żurawina