Idiom
lightning fast
Meaning
Extremely fast, fast as lightning.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The new computer is lightning fast.”
“The delivery driver was lightning fast, arriving at my door only ten minutes after I placed the order.”
“With a lightning fast reaction, the goalkeeper lunged across the net to stop the ball from entering the goal.”
Examples
simple
“The new computer is lightning fast.”
contextual
“The delivery driver was lightning fast, arriving at my door only ten minutes after I placed the order.”
complex
“With a lightning fast reaction, the goalkeeper lunged across the net to stop the ball from entering the goal.”
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