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greased lightning

noun as in warp speed

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Example Sentences

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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