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- phrase idiomatic
Functioning particularlyeffectively ;achieving somethingsubstantial .
Etymologies
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From the suggestion, heavily advertised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that stoves using natural gas as a fuel cook more effectively than, for instance, wood-burning or electric stoves.
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john commented on the word cooking with gas
A colleague just used this phrase to describe the effect of an improvement to something we're building: "now we're cooking with gas!"
Such a great phrase. This and this suggest it dates to when gas stoves replaced wood, though they offer no evidence or citations.
September 23, 2008
yarb commented on the word cooking with gas
See also cooking on gas, which is how I say it.
September 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cooking with gas
Oh yeah, this has been around for ages--at least in my neck of the woods. (We've been cooking with gas for quite a while, I guess.)
September 23, 2008