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Also 'to go like a bomb' meaning to travel at high speed.
"I'm assured that it goes like a bomb.
It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.
"By the grace of God the play went like a bomb - even three 'doodlebugs' dropped during the performance.
Picked up the pace picked up the square ball here and attacked he went went like a bomb.
And when she worked here, she had her daughter working with her and they were a team and they went like a bomb.
The thing would go like a bomb, but what with the traffic we picked up around Palm Beach we never got a chance to open her up.
Heechee digging machines went like a bomb in the lunar rock, and with all the sunlight anybody could want to drive them it cost nothing to keep them going.