Synonyms for live wire


Grammar : Noun
Spell : lahyv
Phonetic Transcription : laɪv


Définition of live wire

  • noun hustler
Example sentences :
  • Why not hunt for a live wire and report it, the way Bob did?
  • Extract from : « Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts » by Roy Rutherford Bailey
  • The teacher should be a "live wire" and should be "doing things" all the time.
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • The real teacher is, to use a popular phrase, a "live wire."
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • Why do you get a shock if your hands are wet when you touch a live wire?
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • Two: how can one be a live wire broker, without having to sell?
  • Extract from : « Lease to Doomsday » by Lee Archer
  • “It would be like being in proximity to a live wire,” he says.
  • Extract from : « Penguin Persons & Peppermints » by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • There may have been some live wire in your family that went West, you know!
  • Extract from : « It Pays to Smile » by Nina Wilcox Putnam
  • Carl leaped off the stone as though he had been touched by a live wire.
  • Extract from : « Motor Matt's Hard Luck » by Stanley R. Matthews
  • Matt had a thought just then that touched him like a live wire.
  • Extract from : « Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel » by Stanley R. Matthews
  • Usually a live wire at repartee, Mamie McCorkle was stumped.
  • Extract from : « Officer 666 » by Barton W. Currie

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