英语词组like a house afire/on fire是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

词组	like a house afire/on fire
释义	like a house afire/on fire Very quickly and efficiently; very well. The simile is based on how houses made of timber or thatch burn very fast, as was the case with the log cabins of American pioneers. Washington Irving used the expression in Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1809), “At it they went like five hundred houses on fire,” and Dickens is quoted as having used it to mean very well (“I am getting on . . . like ‘a house on fire’”) in a letter of 1837.
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