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- to show a large amount of energy, activity, speed, or success: The economy is going like gangbusters. The precious metals market is about to go gangbusters. Fewer examples The nation's real estate market grew like gangbusters for several years.
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Jun 6, 2024 · The UK’s statistics watchdog has opened an investigation into remarks made by Rishi Sunak about the economy “going gangbusters” amid concerns that politicians could misuse economic data in the...
A decent amount of old Noire and blaxsploitation movies are about gangbusters. As far as I recall, this was a term generally used in the 20s where prohibition raged and gangs were fairly common.
Sep 10, 2023 · He’s curious about the use of gangbusters in filmmaker Bruce Brown’s surfing classic The Endless Summer 2 to describe huge waves. The word gangbusters appears to have originated in the slang of the 1920s, referring to the action of police busting up criminal gangs, a typically noisy affair.
The Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 then made it a crime to be in charge of people harvesting shellfish or agricultural produce without a licence. Twenty years earlier, the name of the film...
- Dot Wordsworth
Jun 6, 2024 · The UK’s statistics watchdog investigated an official’s claim in May that the economy was “going gangbusters”, which was later repeated by Rishi Sunak. Sir Robert Chote, chairman of the UK...
Each episode dramatized real-life criminal cases, with a focus on the efforts of law enforcement to apprehend the perpetrators. The show’s opening featured a distinctive siren sound that became one of the most recognizable in radio history.
May 23, 2024 · Nigel Farage decides not to stand. McFadden says election timing shows Sunak’s lack of faith in his plan. Sunak says UK growth is ‘gangbusters’. Pollster John Curtice points to precedents ...
