Like shit through a tin horn
adverb phrase
(Variations: a dose of salts or a hot knife through butter or off a shovel may replace through a tin horn) Very rapidly and easily; effortlessly: He went through the defense like shit through a tin horn/ The pension bill went through like a dose of salts (dose of salts 1837+, tin horn 1940s+)
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- Likest
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- Like that
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