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now you're cooking

now you're cooking phrase: used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made.

Phrase

now you're cooking

  1. (idiomatic) Used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made.
    • Alice: "Why are you still using that old software? You should try out the new version."
    • Bob: "Hey, this is really nice; much better than that crusty stuff we were using before."

Origin of now you're cooking

Derives from a version of the advertising slogan Now you're cooking with gas!, that entered the popular lexicon in the 1930s. See also cooking with gas.

Questions about now you're cooking

What does now you're cooking mean?
Now you're cooking means used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made.
What part of speech is now you're cooking?
Now you're cooking is a phrase.

Words near now you're cooking in the dictionary

  1. now there's a thought
  2. now we're talking
  3. now what
  4. now you mention it
  5. now you tell me
  6. now you're cooking
  7. now you're talking
  8. now, more than ever
  9. now, now
  10. now-a-days
  11. now-adays

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