go through someone like a dose of the salts

go through someone like a dose of the salts
go (right) through someone & go through someone like a dose of the salts
Fig. [for something] to be excreted very soon after being eaten; [for something] to go immediately through the alimentary canal of a person. (Use with discretion.) •

No, thanks. This stuff just goes right through me.

The coffee went through me like a dose of salts.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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