Idiom
now you're cooking
Meaning
Used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That is a much better idea, now you're cooking.”
“You finally stopped using that slow software and switched to the new tool; now you're cooking.”
“Once the team abandoned their outdated strategy and embraced the new data, it was clear that now they were cooking with real momentum.”
Examples
simple
“That is a much better idea, now you're cooking.”
contextual
“You finally stopped using that slow software and switched to the new tool; now you're cooking.”
complex
“Once the team abandoned their outdated strategy and embraced the new data, it was clear that now they were cooking with real momentum.”
Origin
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.
Key words
Related idioms
- Updated