英语词汇“to cook with gas”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. slang (originally U.S.). to cook with gas: to do something very well, to succeed; to be on the right path. Also similarly to cook with electricity, to cook with radar, to cook on the front burner, etc. Usually in the progressive, e.g. you're cooking with gas.

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1940 Variety 18 Sept. 30/3 New musical show ‘Ray Bolger's Dancing School’, was waxed for agency auditioning last week. One of the tunes from the series, ‘Now You're Cooking with Gas’, has already been acquired for publication by BMI.

1941 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Feb. (Comics section) Now you're cookin' with electricity!

1942 Time 27 Apr. 84/3 Many a student..figured that..Thurman Arnold was cooking with gas.

1943 N.Y. Times 9 May ii. 5/4 Brother, when you are cooking with both burners the fiddle is out.

1946 F. Wakeman Hucksters (1947) xv. 201 Vic said, ‘Good boy, Georgie. Now you're cooking with radar.’

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xi. 77 Those Mounties cook with gas. With gas, brother—they're murder.

1973 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 13 Mar. 21 Emverzo then got cooking on the front burner with a pair of direct hits from 20 to 24 feet out.

2014 Hampstead & Highgate Express (Nexis) 2 Jan. Oh, oh that's marvellous. Now we're really getting somewhere. Now we're cooking with gas.

单词	to cook with gas
释义	> as lemmas to cook with gas P3. slang (originally U.S.). to cook with gas: to do something very well, to succeed; to be on the right path. Also similarly to cook with electricity, to cook with radar, to cook on the front burner, etc. Usually in the progressive, e.g. you're cooking with gas. ΚΠ 1940 Variety 18 Sept. 30/3 New musical show ‘Ray Bolger's Dancing School’, was waxed for agency auditioning last week. One of the tunes from the series, ‘Now You're Cooking with Gas’, has already been acquired for publication by BMI. 1941 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Feb. (Comics section) Now you're cookin' with electricity! 1942 Time 27 Apr. 84/3 Many a student..figured that..Thurman Arnold was cooking with gas. 1943 N.Y. Times 9 May ii. 5/4 Brother, when you are cooking with both burners the fiddle is out. 1946 F. Wakeman Hucksters (1947) xv. 201 Vic said, ‘Good boy, Georgie. Now you're cooking with radar.’ 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xi. 77 Those Mounties cook with gas. With gas, brother—they're murder. 1973 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 13 Mar. 21 Emverzo then got cooking on the front burner with a pair of direct hits from 20 to 24 feet out. 2014 Hampstead & Highgate Express (Nexis) 2 Jan. Oh, oh that's marvellous. Now we're really getting somewhere. Now we're cooking with gas. extracted from cookv.¹ < as lemmas
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