Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| ruotsi | oljad blixt |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning).
Esimerkit
- We find there quite seriously the monstrous hyperboles of swallowing a camel, of having a wooden beam in the eye, of a camel's going through the eye of a needle, of heaping coals of fire on the head; all well enough as jokes, like the description of the Green Mountain road so steep that "greased lightning could not go down it without the breeching on".
- He rode his own horse, Greased Lightning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races.
- And off he pops like greased lightning.
- I got on that computer faster than greased lightning and sent him an email.
- You have to take your hat off to them. They've moved like greased lightning. I should have remembered about them. Slippery as a 'barrel load of eels' they are.