like greased lightning
Example Sentences
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Another character “moves like greased lightning and is at the cafe huffing and puffing.”
From Washington Post
Some companies, like Greased Lightning in Newark, now specialize in collecting and paying for large quantities of used oil from restaurants to refine into biofuel.
From New York Times
They're fine, weatherly craft, and with the wind abeam she ought to skip over the bar like greased lightning.
From Project Gutenberg
It worked like greased lightning.
From Project Gutenberg
One year they had spent hours working it up so that you slipped along like greased lightning as you danced.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
