Meaning of greased lightning | Babel Free

Definitions

Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning).

uncountable

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Examples

“We find⟳ there quite seriously the monstrous hyperboles of swallowing a camel, of having a wooden beam in the eye, of a camel's going through the eye of a needle, of heaping coals of fire on the head; all well enough as jokes, like⟳ the description of the Green Mountain road so steep that "greased lightning could not go down it without the breeching on".”

“He rode his own⟳ horse, Greased Lightning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races.”

“And off he pops like⟳ greased lightning.”

“You have⟳ to take⟳ your hat off to them. They've moved like⟳ greased lightning. I should have⟳ remembered about them. Slippery as a 'barrel load⟳ of eels' they are.”

“I got on that computer faster than greased lightning and sent him an email.”

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