like clockwork

night like clockwork she'll sit like a gargoyle in front of the closet and cry pitifully until I come over there now when I finally come over for pets she'll flop on the floor and start horizontally rock climbing her way across the floor with her claws and Tangle herself up in the ethernet cables while I keep up the pad you think I'm joking but I'm very much not this is the only way she accepts pets and I have to give them to her every night or else she's miserable to's

I got a cat.

complicated dinner; today has already been too much." This is a great way to just naturally express your preferences. Great work learning those 10 expressions that I use every day. Let's go on to 10 more. Phrase number one is "like clockwork." Take a look at this sentence and I want you to guess what you think this means: "Every morning at 6:00 a.m., my baby wakes up like clockwork." Do you think that sometimes my baby wakes up at 6, sometimes 8, sometimes 9? Nope, every day without fail, my baby wakes up at 6:00 a.m.

I use these words every day: 40-minute English Vocabulary Lesson

I don't even need to look at the clock; she is like a clock. And here, that's what that expression means: "like clockwork." It happens so regularly that I don't even need to look at the clock because she wakes up every day at 6:00. Vocabulary phrase number two that I use almost every day is "slowly but surely." Notice the pronunciation of the word "surely"—there's no "sh," "surely," but it sounds like that, "surely, surely." Take a look.

I use these words every day: 40-minute English Vocabulary Lesson