greased lightning

When the male has the luck to escape he disappears like a flash, goes down his thread like greased lightning.

I never saw the beggar till he all but flew into my face, and then away he went, like a streak of greased lightning.

So brakeless, she zig-zagged like greased lightning to the bottom.

Yes, and as soon as I saw what It meant, I gave the alarm; but the devil disappeared like greased lightning.

The Greased Lightning had swung out about the length of her anchor rope, and the water wa'n't deep.