like (greased) lightning

phrase

informal

: very quickly

The news traveled across the country like lightning.

moving like greased lightning

Examples of like (greased) lightning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My 11-year-old daughter and I are in awe watching the Masters Agility Championship Preliminaries, where Border Collies and Jack Russell Terriers move like lightning through tunnels and over hurdles. — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 10 Feb. 2026

Ricks’s metaphors are perhaps too much like lightning, more about light than heat. — Katie Kadue, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

Edgerton captures the essence of sorrow like lightning bugs in a jar; his sadness isn’t a dark, overbearing thing, but a source of gentle, mournful light. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Dec. 2025

Without knowing how to create sparks using flint and stone materials, our forebearers likely relied on leveraging wildfires and other small flames created by natural events like lightning strikes. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2025