on wheels
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Figuratively, Postpositional, Slang To a large degree, excessively.
- a bitch on wheels
- Last summer would have been a bitch on wheels if it hadn't been for my adorable and patient husband, Mark Frauenfelder, to whom I give my biggest thanks.1996, Carla Sinclair, Net chick: a smart-girl guide to the wired world, Henry Holt, →ISBN, Acknowledgments:
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- "That prosecutor seems like a real bitch on wheels," Amanda says […].2005, Joy Fielding, Puppet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 181:
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Figuratively Mobile; able to be moved; especially, synonym of on the move.
- The order was written. In less than ten days everything was "on wheels" and the whole body of these Sioux [was] on the move to the country they had indicated, and the Secretary of the Interior says, naively, in his report for 1868, "The Indians were found to be quite determined to move westward, and the promise of the government in that respect was faithfully kept."1881, Helen Hunt Jackson, chapter V, in A Century of Dishonor:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, wheels. (Having wheels affixed to the bottom, and so transportable; synonym of wheeled).
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- hell on wheels