on wheels

English

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Prepositional phrase

on wheels

  2. (slang, postpositive, figurative) To a large degree, excessively.
    Coordinate term: on steroids
    a bitch on wheels
    • 1996, Carla Sinclair, Net chick: a smart-girl guide to the wired world‎[1], Henry Holt, →ISBN, Acknowledgments:
      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.
    • 2005, Joy Fielding, Puppet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 181:
      "That prosecutor seems like a real bitch on wheels," Amanda says […] .
  4. (figurative) Mobile; able to be moved; especially, synonym of on the move.
    • 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson, chapter V, in A Century of Dishonor:
      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."
  6. 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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