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cooking on gas

cooking on gas is the alternative form of cooking with gas.

Meaning of cooking with gas

Phrase

cooking with gas

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.
    • She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.'
      The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. That's good,' he said. 'Sure. You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn't think you could. But you can, can't you? You're...1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral (short story)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas.

Questions about cooking on gas

What is cooking on gas the alternative form of?
Cooking on gas is the alternative form of cooking with gas.

Words near cooking on gas in the dictionary

  1. cooking liquor
  2. cooking liquors
  3. cooking off
  4. cooking oil
  5. cooking oils
  6. cooking on gas
  7. cooking out
  8. cooking plate
  9. cooking plates
  10. cooking pot
  11. cooking pots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cooking on gas (page history and authors); cooking with gas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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