单词 | like a shot |
释义 | like a shotSEE SYNONYMS FOR like a shot ON THESAURUS.COM Very rapidly, as in When they asked for volunteers, he raised his hand like a shot. This expression alludes to the rapidity of gunfire. [Colloquial; late 1800s] Words nearby like a shotlike a drowned rat, like a fish out of water, like a house afire, like a lamb to the slaughter, like anything, like a shot, like as not, like as two peas in a pod, like a ton of bricks, like clockwork, like crazy The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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