Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “fire on all cylinders“ and it is a phrase meaning “to work/perform at the maximum possible level of efficiency/productivity; energetic, lively, active.
Example Sentence: Everyone has a different body clock timetable (chronotype) that controls when they naturally wake, eat, work, play and sleep. A small proportion of us (14%) are primed to fire on all cylinders as soon as the sun rises (“morning larks”). Nearly a quarter of us are energised around sundown (“night owls”). The rest fly somewhere down the middle.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Don’t hit snooze – and other secrets of a happy daily routine, and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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