a treat
UK informalvery well; with good results:
To prevent red wine from staining, put some salt on it - it works a treat.
That soup went down a treat (= tasted very good)!
I polished that old desk of grandma's and it came up a treat (= its appearance improved).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Efficient and effective
- be firing on all cylinders idiom
- businesslike
- do the trick idiom
- does what it says on the tin idiom
- effective
- labour-saving
- miraculous
- organized
- potency
- proactive
- punch
- smooth
- technical
- timesaving
- together
- treat
- trick
- well oiled
- well tried
- worth
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