American Idioms and Expressions

Cooking With Gas Idiom

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Cooking with gas
What does Cooking with gas mean?		To be working fast, proceeding rapidly.After working with those old hand tools, power tools will make you feel like you are really cooking with gas.
Although common place today, gas stoves have not always been the norm. Gas stoves started to be available in the 1800's, and until that time wood stoves were the standard.
Now you're "cooking with gas" comes from an old advertisement for gas stoves. The phrase suggests that gas is faster, easier, cleaner, better than cooking with wood.

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