单词 | like smoke |
释义 | > as lemmaslike smoke h. like smoke, very quickly, rapidly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > very swiftly as swift (also quick, fleet) as thought?c1225 like lightning1567 (as) quick as lightning1580 like wildfire1699 like stour1787 (as) quick as a wink1825 like smoke1832 quick as a streak1839 like sixty1848 (as) quick as thought1871 at a great lick1898 like a bat out of hell1921 like the clappers1948 like a bomb1954 1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 306/1 Sail was made, and..she began to snore through it like smoke. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack vi. 26 Away we all went like smoke. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xi. 102 His brandy-balls go off like smoke. 1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough 86 The hounds are running like smoke! < as lemmas |
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