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After the famous comedian Bob Hope popularized the catchphrase “now you’re cooking with gas!” on his 1930s-era radio show, the slogan became synonymous with “modern, efficient, clean.”
Never knew Hope was the progenitor of this idiom.
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- Oct 2020
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www.idioms4you.com www.idioms4you.com
- Jul 2020
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
- May 2020
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www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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- Dec 2015
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cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.net cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.netACT III1
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forelock
Regarded as a piece of a horse-harness (OED).
To take fortune, also regarded as time, by the forelock means to sieze an opportunity. (Oxford Dictionaries)
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cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.net cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.netACT IV1
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Jack−sauce
"Jack-sauce" n. Obs. a saucy or impudent fellow. (OED online)
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cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.net cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.netACT II1
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dead Lift
A position or juncture in which one can do no more, an extremity, ‘a hopeless exigence’ (Johnson). Usually in phrase at a dead lift. (Very common in the 17th c.: now arch. or dial.) (OED)
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