cooking with gas
Making great progress
Cooking with gas is an expression meaning to work effectively, make real progress, or finally get something right.
It emerged when gas stoves represented modern efficiency compared to wood or coal.
Someone who is cooking with gas has hit their stride or found the right approach: Once we switched to the new software, we were really cooking with gas.
The phrase often appears as encouragement when someone improves: Now you're cooking with gas!
- stoveKitchen heating appliance
- gas rangeFlame-powered cooking appliance
- burnerHeat-producing device component
- pilot lightContinuous ignition source
- successFavorable outcome attained
making progress · efficiency · flame · blue flame · mastery · modernity · momentum · firing on all cylinders · full steam ahead · breakthrough · on a roll · in the zone · achievement · skillet · heat · productivity · saucepan · innovation
cooking with gasstruggling
Experiencing serious difficulty
spinning one's wheels · going nowhere · treading water · stuck in a rut · floundering
cooking with gaslost at sea
Missing in ocean waters
out of one's depth · clueless · fumbling · all at sea · in over one's head
cooking with gasfloundering
Struggling clumsily, failing
fumbling · all thumbs · out of one's depth · in over one's head · struggling
cook, cooked, cooks, cooker, cookery, cookbook, cooking, gassed