get on like a house on fire

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To immediately start a good relationship with someone.

    Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they were both into juggling they got on like a house on fire.

词源

By metaphor, reflecting the notion that housefires are archetypally roaringly quick and robust.

来源:wiktionary