like a dream
like a dream
Exceptionally well or good; better than one could have hoped. After plugging away at it for nearly two years, we finally got this old hot rod running like a dream. Our wedding day was like a dream. I still can't believe how perfectly it all came together.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
like a dream
COMMON If you do something like a dream, you do it very well. She had noticed, from across the dance floor, that he danced like a dream. He writes like a dream.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
like a dream
very well or successfully. informal 1996 Good Food The spring lamb is stuffed … laced with garlic and herbs, and carves like a dream.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- work like a dream
- plug away
- plug away (at something)
- a whale of a
- big ol'
- OL
- have a charmed life
- lead/have a charmed life
- plugging along