be cooking

phrase

informal

: to be performing or doing something well

The economy is really cooking.

That's it! Now you're cooking!

Examples of be cooking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This is not really the show to be on your phone, to be cooking dinner. — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

With so many planetary laboratories on which so much planetary chemistry could be playing out, who’s to say at least some of them wouldn’t be cooking up life? — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026

Your kitchen is going to be cooking for you. — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2025

In 16th-century England, the term referred to any meal that happened to be cooking in the pot on that day. — Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 29 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for be cooking

• booking
• brooking
• hooking
• looking
• overlooking