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go through like a dose of salts

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go through somebody/something like a dose of salts

  (old-fashioned)

if something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly Those beans went through me like a dose of salts.

See give a dose of own medicine

See also: dose, like, of, salt