词组 | like a dose of salts |
释义 | Idiom like a dose of saltsgo 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. like a dose of saltsvery fast and efficiently. British informalThe salts referred to in this expression are laxatives. 1991 Peter Carey The Tax Inspector She's going to go through your old man like a dose of salts. like a dose of ˈsalts(old-fashioned, British English, informal) very fast and easily: We’ll go through this house like a dose of salts, cleaning it from top to bottom. Salts in this phrase are laxatives (= medicine that makes you go to the toilet). |
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