| 单词 | streak of lightning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstreak of lightning c. slang. streak of lightning, ? a glass of gin (cf. lightning n. 2). like a streak, like streaks: with the swiftness of lightning; also quick as a streak and transferred. 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 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > a drink of flash of lightning1789 spencer1804 streak of lightning1839 gin1922 1839 Knickerbocker 13 298 I see him yesterday afternoon..starting off like a streak, to go to Norridgewock. 1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. xi. 89 The water wheeled my head round to the hole, and in I went quick as a streak. 1859 C. Mackay Life & Liberty Amer. I. 169 ‘Ginsling,’ ‘brandy-smash’, ‘a streak of lightning’, [etc.]. 1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 376 He went past me like a streak when I was coming up the road. 1901 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 6/2 Workman was running like a ‘streak,’ to use the local phrase. 1901 Scribner's Mag. 29 501/1 We worked like streaks. 1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 138 Maybe I will light out like a streak of wind. < as lemmas |
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