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great guns

adverb

  1. Informal. in a relentlessly energetic or successful manner:

    The new president has the company going great guns.



interjection

  1. (used as an expression of surprise, astonishment, etc.)
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of great guns1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Mr Haller said that at the beginning of last year "manufacturing was going great guns" but after an expected pause around the general election, activity has failed to pick up.

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“Things are going great guns and we’re having so much fun,” MacLachlan says.

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Every time the great guns fired, Isaac said he jumped off the ground.

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"It's all been going great guns and we've all been doing lots of publicity and interviews and writing articles for the papers and stuff, all at the behest of the Agatha Christie estate," McDermid told the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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“Japan Inc.” was going great guns.

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