like (greased) lightning
idiom
informal
: very quickly
The news traveled across the country like lightning.
moving like greased lightning
Examples of like (greased) lightning in a Sentence
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The chapel was so old that creaks shuttered across the floor like lightning.
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Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Although some Shield tracks feel like Priest-by-numbers, the songs that really hit feel like lightning striking.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
By burying power lines, the wires will be protected from common outage causes, like lightning, high winds, tornadoes, heavy snow, ice and falling tree limbs, according to Consumers.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said on Friday that 95 percent of the fires across the country had been started by people rather than by natural causes like lightning — either accidentally, while burning garbage or clearing the land for farming, or with criminal intent.
—Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Outside, a red light flashes in the dark sky, like lightning; it is followed not by rain but by rubble that pounds the roofs of houses around us.
—Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
You just get hit by this music like lightning without knowing any backstory or cultural reference points, and you’re instantly converted.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2023
After all, says Chanin, brilliance doesn’t always strike like lightning but stems from micro-steps and consistent habits.
—Sara Youngblood Gregory, refinery29.com, 20 July 2023
Pasek and a team of researchers have studied this new material and how high-energy events like lightning strikes can lead to these reactions, and recently published some of their findings in Communications Earth & Environment.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Although some Shield tracks feel like Priest-by-numbers, the songs that really hit feel like lightning striking.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
By burying power lines, the wires will be protected from common outage causes, like lightning, high winds, tornadoes, heavy snow, ice and falling tree limbs, according to Consumers.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said on Friday that 95 percent of the fires across the country had been started by people rather than by natural causes like lightning — either accidentally, while burning garbage or clearing the land for farming, or with criminal intent.
—Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Outside, a red light flashes in the dark sky, like lightning; it is followed not by rain but by rubble that pounds the roofs of houses around us.
—Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
You just get hit by this music like lightning without knowing any backstory or cultural reference points, and you’re instantly converted.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2023
After all, says Chanin, brilliance doesn’t always strike like lightning but stems from micro-steps and consistent habits.
—Sara Youngblood Gregory, refinery29.com, 20 July 2023
Pasek and a team of researchers have studied this new material and how high-energy events like lightning strikes can lead to these reactions, and recently published some of their findings in Communications Earth & Environment.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
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