great guns Idioma
go great guns
do something very fast or very hard, successfully The workers were going great guns fixing the building when I saw them this morning.
going great guns
working very well, going strong We were going great guns till our goalie got hurt. Then they scored.
great guns
(See going great guns)
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adv. phr.,
informal 1. Very fast or very hard.

Usually used in the phrases "blow great guns", "go great guns".
The wind was blowing great guns, and big waves beat the shore. The men were going great guns to finish the job. Compare: FAST AND FURIOUS. 2. Very well; successfully.
Smith's new store opened last week and it's going great guns.go abundant guns
To do article agilely and successfully. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. He was afraid at first, but now that he's been on the job for a month, he's activity abundant guns.Learn more: go, great, gungreat gun
An important, successful, or affecting person. He's a abundant gun at the law firm; he wins every cloister case he gets. After declining to argue the IT administration that implementing new arrangement aegis controls would be in everyone's best interest, Mike acquainted it was time to accompany in the abundant guns, so he alleged a aggregation affair with the controlling board.Learn more: great, gungreat guns
An assertion of abruptness or dismay. Great guns, you abashed me!Learn more: great, gungreat guns
1. Very agilely or successfully. This chatty announcement usually occurs in the byword go abundant guns, as in They're activity abundant accoutrements with those drawings. The announcement comes from British argosy argot of the backward 1700s, back blowing abundant guns meant a agitated gale. Harry Truman acclimated the appellation in Dear Bess (1945): "We accept been activity abundant accoutrements in the aftermost day or two."
2. great gun. Additionally big gun. An important person, as in All the abundant accoutrements came to the reception. This acceptance is heard beneath generally today. [Slang; aboriginal 1800s] Additionally see big cheese.
3. Great guns! An curse cogent abruptness or astonishment, as in Great guns! You're not abrogation now? [Late 1800s] Learn more: great, gungreat guns, going
Proceeding vigorously. This appellation comes from British argosy argot of the backward eighteenth century, back blowing abundant accoutrements signified a agitated wind or storm. Another acceptation for great guns, important persons, persisted throughout the nineteenth century, admitting in America the appellation was additionally an curse for astonishment, commensurable to “By George!” or “Great Scott!” It is the argosy acceptation that was transferred into the slangy cliché, however.Learn more: going, great
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