Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.
With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas.
Exact; precise; appropriate.
Unimaginative; over-literal; lacking nuance.
Smelly, malodorous.
To finish first.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, nose.