cooking with gas vs up to snuff

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. 

up to snuff

adj
  • Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard. 

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