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This is not an idiom. When you see AS ___ AS ___ then you're looking at A Simile. Something is being compared to lightning speed.

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The idiom "quick as greased lightning" means extremely fast or rapid, like lightning that is slick and fast due to being lubricated with grease. It is used to describe someone or something that moves or acts very quickly.

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