| 词汇 | quick as greased lightning |
| 词源 | quick as greased lightning. Quick as greased lightning is an Americanism dating from about the 1840s, but is a typical western exaggeration of the British quick as lightning, first re- corded 100 years earlier. Quicker than hell can scorch a feather is a similar Americanism from the mid-19th century. |
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