Meaning of great guns | Babel Free

Definitions

With great speed or energy; very quickly or energetically.

Examples

“I was on the road, and heard them running 'great guns' over the Old Hall.”

“The wind was blowing great guns, and although dories are not notorious for their pace we made good time, and covered some ten miles in a short space of time.”

“People are often struck by the strange fact that in one portion of Cape Town a south-easter may be blowing great guns, and in another not a breath of wind, or perhaps a slight one from the opposite point[…]”

“The engine was running great guns, but we weren't progressing. Wright came up and sat down beside me.”

“Since The Da Vinci Code was selling great guns already by the time my book Lost Christianities appeared, my publicist at Oxford University Press, Tara Kennedy, along with my longtime editor and friend, Robert Miller, suggested that I come up with a list of historical problems with the book, so that they could give these to our marketing people […]”

“[…]I had to be rescued when found swimming great guns in the direction of Ceylon.”

“I was running running great guns. I also remember a couple of nurses and one orderly running after me. They finally caught me and one orderly gave me a fistful in the eye. I must have passed out because I only remember the next morning.”

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