Definitions
Wiktionary
- idiomatic Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.
Etymologies
- From the suggestion, heavily advertised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that stoves using natural gas as a fuel cook more effectively than, for instance, wood-burning or electric stoves. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cooking with gas’.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for cooking with gas.
reesetee Oh yeah, this has been around for ages--at least in my neck of the woods. (We've been cooking with gas for quite a while, I guess.) Sep 23, 2008
yarb See also cooking on gas, which is how I say it. Sep 23, 2008
john A colleague just used this phrase to describe the effect of an improvement to something we're building: "now we're cooking with gas!"
Such a great phrase. This and this suggest it dates to when gas stoves replaced wood, though they offer no evidence or citations. Sep 23, 2008