cooking with gas vs tolerable

cooking with gas

phrase
  • 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. 

tolerable

adv
  • tolerably; passably; moderately. 

adj
  • Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable. 

  • Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so. 

  • Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable. 

  • In fair health; passably well. 

How often have the words cooking with gas and tolerable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )