"cooking with gas" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the suggestion, heavily advertised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that stoves using natural gas as a fuel cook more effectively than, for instance, wood-burning or electric stoves.",
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        {
          "ref": "1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral (short story)",
          "text": "She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.'\nThe 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 cooking with gas now. You know what I'm saying? We're really going to have us something here in a minute. How's the old arm?' he said. 'Put some people in there now. What's a cathedral without people?'"
        },
        {
          "text": "With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time."
        }
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        "Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial."
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        "(idiomatic) Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas."
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          "gas",
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "word": "now you're cooking"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "word": "cooking on gas"
        }
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  "etymology_text": "From the suggestion, heavily advertised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that stoves using natural gas as a fuel cook more effectively than, for instance, wood-burning or electric stoves.",
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        {
          "ref": "1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral (short story)",
          "text": "She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.'\nThe 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 cooking with gas now. You know what I'm saying? We're really going to have us something here in a minute. How's the old arm?' he said. 'Put some people in there now. What's a cathedral without people?'"
        },
        {
          "text": "With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time."
        }
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        "Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial."
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        "(idiomatic) Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas."
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    {
      "word": "cooking on gas"
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