cooking with gas

Efficiently performing a task after a long period of inefficient performance or possibly failed attempts at the entire task or certain steps in the process.

(After thirty minutes of working hard and getting almost nothing done but then suddenly finding a way to do it efficiently)
NOW we're cooking with gas!

cooking with gas by Colonel_Cheesemonkey January 2, 2007

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now you're cooking with gas

Generally referring to someone going from average mental output to a better, more genius level of thought.

Person A: "I think I'm gonna stop doing all this complicated math by hand and start using a calculator."

Person B: "Now you're cooking with gas!"

now you're cooking with gas by Stormcastle October 15, 2010

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cooking with gas

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Before natural gas people cooked with wood, then gas became the new thing, being modern up to date as in now your cooking with gas!

Wow I finally figured out how to put in my speed demon game card! now I'm cooking with gas!

cooking with gas by arthurnor August 31, 2011

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cooking with gas

(variants: oil may replace gas)
working very efficiently(an elaboration of cooking)

Once I am donerading the book I have chosen to write about, I will be cooking with gas.

cooking with gas by Light Joker October 13, 2004

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cooking with gas

Substantially increasing the likelihood I or a member of my family will get asthma, to own the libs.

I love God, guns and cooking with gas.

cooking with gas by Jasper C. Debussy January 12, 2023

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Toe Rag

A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.

1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.

Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016

Word of the Day on July 24, 2026

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Eternity leave

When some resigns or retires from a job, they are on "eternity leave". This can also refer to someone who has passed away, especially someone who worked somewhere for a long time, retired/resigned, then passed away later.

Oh I'm sorry, you didn't know that Kelly is on eternity leave? She resigned and moved to Hawaii!

With regrets I would like to inform you that my boss is officially on eternity leave. I will never see or hear them again. Ever.

Eternity leave by LingDanc803 February 7, 2023

Word of the Day on July 23, 2026

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