Meaning of cooking with gas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.
   idiomatic, informal
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas.

Examples

“She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.' The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. That's good,' he said. 'Sure. You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn't think you could. But you can, can't you? You're cooking with gas now. You know what I'm saying? We're really going to have us something here in a minute. How's the old arm?' he said. 'Put some people in there now. What's a cathedral without people?'”

“With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time.”

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