- 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
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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 — 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
