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like a dose of salts en · ADP

Etymology

From the laxative properties of Epsom salts.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:simile) Very quickly and thoroughly.
    • Carew, a notorious axeman, had just gone through a neighbouring regional station like a dose of salts, restructuring and streamlining, as he liked to call it. 2010, Coleen Nolan, Envy, →ISBN:
    • She was a bit concerned about the old woman getting down on her knees because of her complaints about rheumatism, but ever since Becky had dropped her off, the maid had not stopped working and had gone through the hotel like a dose of salts. 2015, June Francis, A Mother's Duty, →ISBN, page 212:
    • After five minutes' conversation with me the old folks would penetrate the deception like a dose of salts. 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
    • Every so often a mass campaign swept the country like a dose of salts, and officials, writers, artists, people in the public eye were purged and flushed out on a tidal wave of hysteria. 2009, Esther Cheo Ying, Black Country to Red China, →ISBN: