like a dose of salts
informal Very quickly or rapidly. A reference to the use of Epsom salts as a laxative. Primarily heard in UK. If you want someone to carefully organize these files, don't ask George—he'll go through them like a dose of salts. Would you slow down? We'll never find what we're looking for if we go through the place like a dose of salts! Can we go somewhere else for dinner? I'm sorry, but that place's food just goes through me like a dose of salts.
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like a dose of salts
very fast and efficiently. British informal The 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.
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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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