be cooking
US informal old-fashionedto be making good progress or doing something well:
The battery's recharged, give it a little more gas. Now we're cooking!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- betterment
- bring
- develop
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- headway
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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