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now you're cooking

idiom

Used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made.


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  1. 01

    any time now

    Very soon.

  2. 02

    cooking with gas

    Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.

  3. 03

    now and again

    Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.

  4. 04

    now and then

    Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.

  5. 05

    now for

    Used to introduce something that is to occur or be presented next.

  6. 06

    now or never

    At this sole opportunity or time, or not at all.

  7. 07

    now you mention it

    Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.

  8. 08

    now you're talking

    A phrase indicating agreement with a previously stated suggestion to change a course of action.

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