like greased lightning
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Her crochet hook was racing like greased lightning by then.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
I went down it like greased lightning and came out at the bottom of it and once again I was on the floor.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
"And streaking it like greased lightning," added Whopper.
From Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters by Ralph Bonehill
It can run, as the proverb says, like "greased lightning."
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
So brakeless, she zig-zagged like greased lightning to the bottom.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
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