Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FAST AND RAPID
- AT FULL SPEED/TILT
Anmerkungen:
- A MILE A MINUTE
Anmerkungen:
- GO/MOVE/TALK/TRAVEL
- AS IF IT IS GOING OUT OF STYLE
Anmerkungen:
- very quickly or much more than people normally do
- BREAKNECK
- dangerously or extremely fast: he drove at breakneck speed
- AS FAST AS YOUR LEGS WOULD CARRY YOU
- BLISTERING
- (of heat) intense: the blistering heat of the desert
- extremely fast, forceful, or impressive: Burke set a blistering pace
- (of criticism) expressed with great vehemence: blistering diatribes
- FULL STEAM (SPEED) AHEAD
Anmerkungen:
- used to indicate that
one should proceed
with as much speed or
energy as possible
- Even though interviews are going full speed ahead, we don't have that many candidates
- LIKE HOT CAKES
- GO/SELL
- BRISK
- active, fast, and energetic: a good brisk walk
- HUSTLE
- force (someone) to move hurriedly or
unceremoniously in a specified direction: they
hustled him into the back of a horse-drawn
wagon
- BUNDLE
- informal push or carry forcibly: he was bundled into a van
- send (someone) away hurriedly or
unceremoniously: the old man was bundled off into
exile
- a collection of things, or a quantity of material, tied
or wrapped up together: a thick bundle of envelopes
- push roughly; jostle: they were hissed and hustled as they went in
- (hustle someone into) coerce or pressure
someone into doing or choosing something:
don’t be hustled into anything
- HOTFOOT
- in eager haste: he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object
- walk or run quickly and eagerly: we hotfooted it after him
- IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE
- HEADLONG
- in a rush; with reckless haste
- without thinking, without forethought,
rashly, recklessly, carelessly,
hastily, breakneck, whirlwind; reckless,
- BEFORE YOU CAN SAY JACK ROBINSON
- LIKE A SHOT
- informal without hesitation; willingly: “Would you go back?” “Like a shot.”
- LIKE A STREAK (OF LIGHTNING)
- informal very fast: he is off like a streak
- METEORIC
- (of the development of something, especially a
person’s career) very rapid: her meteoric rise to the
top of her profession
- PDQ
- informal pretty damn quick.
- PRECIPITOUS
- (of an action) done suddenly and without careful consideration: precipitous intervention
- dangerously high or steep: the precipitous cliffs of the North Atlantic coast
- SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE
- spread with great speed: the news had spread like wildfire
- SWIFT
- happening quickly or promptly: a remarkably swift recovery
- moving or capable of moving at high speed: the water was very swift
- WHOOSH
- a sudden movement accompanied by a rushing sound: there was a big whoosh of air
- move or cause to move quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound: [no object]: a train whooshed by