| 单词 | a dose of salts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa dose of salts c. a dose of salts: a dose of aperient salts; also transferred and figurative with like: very rapidly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase] in hastec1300 on wheelsc1547 like wildfire1699 like magic1783 like a shot1809 a dose of salts1837 1837 Crockett's Almanac 3 I'll go through the Mexicans like a dose of salts. 1953 E. Simon Past Masters ii. iii. 84 She went systematically through the residents, in the phrase of Monro, like a dose of salts. 1961 L. Dobie & R. Sloman Tinker 11 If you think you're getting tired or anything, tell me and we'll be back down that bloody thing like a dose of salts. 1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile ii. 28 He boxed three years for Oxford... And went through the opposition like a dose of salts. 1968 J. Wainwright Edge of Extinction 31 If we don't hold 'em they'll go through this city like a dose of salts. < as lemmas |
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