At first he was happy, running his hands over the machinery, analysing how the gears all meshed.

"The question is how are you going to feel when people start to think your gears aren't meshing?"

He palmed the can and hefted it, gears meshing in his head.

The car leaped away as the gears meshed.

But Larry was in the background making sure all the gears meshed and all the wheels turned.

But after about a week, the gears meshed in my brain.

Bill said, gears not meshed, brain still alcohol and sleep sodden.

I hear the gears meshing in your head, Martin.

We thought of society as a machine in which gears meshed; work was done, pay was earned and entertainments enjoyed.