like a dose of salts

Went through your people like a dose of salts, from what I heard.

Then we'll go through this place like a dose of salts.

What you do is to go through that house like a dose of salts.

"He went off with my money like a dose of salts."

"You certainly came down those stairs like a dose of salts."

You went on through Langley like a dose of salts.

Many readers thought it would pass through the body of language like a dose of salts.

Along with the rest of the constables, they went through the building like a dose of salts.

True - like a dose of salts!

"We went through all twelve levels of this place like a dose of salts, and now she's settling down for a second tour."

"You'd be over-run like a dose of salts," the waiter said.

'All the more reason to go through it like a dose of salts,' Kathy said grimly.

'Give me fifty commandos,' he said, 'and I'd go through the country like a dose of salts.'

"They went through there like a dose of salts and all they could find was the light bulb," Mr. Zindler said.

"Like a dose of salts," said Bud, "thout trippin' the alarm, neither."

Then I went through the lab like a dose of salts, opening cabinets and leaving them open, dumping drawers and looking for papers that might be useful.

He claimed, in his heyday, to be in the habit of going through Queen Charlotte's Balls "like a dose of salts".

'Give me my old company back,' Jones said, 'and I'd go through the police station like a dose of salts till I found him.'

He went through the women of Walford like a dose of salts, but at the end of the day slippery Simon was a bolter".

None of the writhing intellectuals were physical types, and he went through them like a dose of salts, then began to extricate his new-found comrades from the mess.

Nevertheless, Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, the Senate minority whip, predicted that a veto override "will pass like a dose of salts."

As soon as they'd been converted he'd call in all the experts and they'd go through the Masters' records like a dose of salts through a hillbilly schoolma'am.

I'd gone through the place like a dose of salts, stuffing a couple of suitcases full of clothes and such papers and items as he might have taken along for an extended trip.

It was a single photocopied page declaring a National Emergency at the offices of Bentwing Associates-Elmo went through associates like a dose of salts through a fasting guru--on a Friday evening two weeks hence.