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  • 1like greased lightning — old fashioned if someone does something like greased lightning, they do it very quickly. I mentioned work and he was out of the room like greased lightning …

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  • 2greased lightning — If something or someone moves like greased lightning, they move very fast indeed …

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  • 3greased lightning — 1. n. strong liquor. □ This greased lightning of yours nearly blew my head off. □ No more greased lightning for me. 2. n. something fast or powerful. □ That little car is just greased lightning. □ …

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  • 4greased lightning —    If something or someone moves like greased lightning, they move very fast indeed.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

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  • 5Greased lightning —   If something or someone moves like greased lightning, they move very fast indeed …

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  • 6greased lightning — noun Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning). We find there quite seriously the monstrous hyperboles of swallowing a camel, of having a wooden beam in the eye, of a camels going through the …

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  • 7lightning — light|ning1 [ laıtnıŋ ] noun uncount * the bright flashes of light that you see in the sky during a storm: She lay awake, listening to the thunder and lightning. a flash of lightning: A flash of lightning lit up the sky. be struck by lightning… …

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  • 8lightning — I UK [ˈlaɪtnɪŋ] / US noun [uncountable] * the bright flashes of light that you see in the sky during a storm She lay awake, listening to the thunder and lightning. a flash of lightning: A flash of lightning lit up the sky. be struck by lightning… …

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  • 9like — I adj 1. similar, homologous, much the same, pretty much the same, more or less the same, something like, not unlike; comparable, analogous, parallel, correspondent, corresponding, resembling, following; near, close, approximating, same but… …

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  • 10fast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. starve, diet, abstain. See asceticism. adj. swift, speedy, fleet, quick, rapid; secure, firm, permanent, steadfast, profound; wild, rakish, dissipated. See velocity, junction, impurity, tenacity,… …

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