like a dose of salts

like a dose of salts
разг.-фам.
очень быстро, стремительно (обыкн. go through smb. или smth. like a dose of salts)

‘What sort of a chap is he? Pale and fragile, I suppose...’ ‘Pale and fragile, my foot. He boxed three years for Oxford.’ ‘He did?’ ‘and went through the opposition like a dose of salts.’ (P. G. Wodehouse, ‘Service with a Smile’, ch. II) — - Что представляет собой Билл Бейли? Наверное, бледная немощь... - Как же, бледная немощь! Он ведь боксер. Три года выступал за Оксфорд. - Да ну? - Да, да, в два счета расправлялся со своими соперниками.

‘Give me my old company back,’ Jones said, ‘and I'd go through the police-station like a dose of salts till I found him.’ (Gr. Greene, ‘The Comedians’, part III, ch. II) — - Будь у меня моя рота, - заявил Джонс, - я бы быстро обшарил весь полицейский участок и нашел Хаминта.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • like a dose of salts — (informal) Very quickly • • • Main Entry: ↑salt * * * like a dose of salts british informal old fashioned phrase very fast Thesaurus: quicklysynonym …   Useful english dictionary

  • like a dose of salts — ► like a dose of salts Brit. informal very fast and efficiently. [ORIGIN: from the use of Epsom salts as a laxative.] Main Entry: ↑dose …   English terms dictionary

  • like a dose of salts — go through (someone/something) like a dose of salts old fashioned if something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly. Those beans went through me like a dose of salts …   New idioms dictionary

  • like a dose of salts Brit. — like a dose of salts Brit. informal very fast and efficiently. [from the use of Epsom salts as a laxative.] → dose …   English new terms dictionary

  • go through someone like a dose of salts — go through (someone/something) like a dose of salts old fashioned if something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly. Those beans went through me like a dose of salts …   New idioms dictionary

  • go through something like a dose of salts — go through (someone/something) like a dose of salts old fashioned if something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly. Those beans went through me like a dose of salts …   New idioms dictionary

  • go through like a dose of salts — go through (someone/something) like a dose of salts old fashioned if something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly. Those beans went through me like a dose of salts …   New idioms dictionary

  • like a dose of salts — British informal old fashioned very fast …   English dictionary

  • go through someone like a dose of (the) salts — in. to move through someone’s digestive tract like a strong laxative. □ That stuff they served last night went through me like a dose of salts. □ Careful of the coffee. It’ll go through you like a dose of the salts …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • dose — ► NOUN 1) a quantity of a medicine or drug taken at one time. 2) an amount of ionizing radiation received or absorbed at one time. 3) informal a venereal infection. ► VERB ▪ administer a dose to. ● like a dose of salts Cf. ↑ …   English terms dictionary

  • dose — dose1 [dəus US dous] n [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: Greek dosis, from didonai to give ] 1.) the amount of a medicine or a drug that you should take dose of ▪ Never exceed the recommended dose of painkillers. high/low dose ▪ Start with a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English


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