greased lightning
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "I got on that computer faster than greased lightning and sent him an email."