cook with gas

Idioms and Phrases

Also, cook on the front burner . Do very well, make rapid progress. For example, The first half is finished already? Now you're cooking with gas , or Two promotions in two years—she's really cooking on the front burner! The first of these metaphoric phrases alludes to gas stoves, which began to replace slower wood-burning stoves about 1915. The variant, which alludes to something on a stove's front burner receiving more attention, is heard less often today. [ Slang ; 1940s] Also see back burner .

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