Bob Hope, along with Daffy Duck and Marlene Dietrich, helped popularize the catchphrase 'Now you're cooking with gas.' Many decades later, we're paying out the nose for the privilege.
“Now we’re cooking with gas!”
This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). I.
Now we’re cooking with gas!” This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). It has the same rhetorical heft as “Full steam ahead.” It was popularized by radio stars Bob Hope and Jack Benny in the 1930s, and was