| 单词 | like lightning |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike lightning P2. like lightning and variants: with the swiftness of lightning; very fast. 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 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 101v But yet the moodie beast thereby was set the more on fire And chasing like the lightning swift he vttreth forth his ire. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 725 He..drives him, like a Light'ning, on the Foe. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 261 This Notion run like Lightning thro' the City. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vi. 126 Our hero..ran like lightning to the gap. 2017 Sun (Nexis) 23 Mar. (Second ed.) (Editorial section) 12 The police and officials within the Palace of Westminster who moved like lightning to keep MPs, staff and visitors safe as pandemonium broke out. < as lemmas |
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