double-quick Význam & definice

Příklady double-quick

• The entire vessel and its cargo had to be raised in double-quick time or an appalling environmental catastrophe would have resulted.

• That needs to be addressed in double-quick time.

• It often turns out that the land is worth only a few shillings an acre, but it leaps to perhaps hundreds in double-quick time.

• The man in the street also learnt in double-quick time that this extra taxation was not going to be paid either by the distiller, or the brewer, or the publican.

• More often than not these double-quick projects were industrial facilities, prompting criticisms that much of the firm's work lacked architectural character.

• Bring them up on the double-quick and don't stop for aligning.

• Upon discovering his mistake, he sent 300 men back to the redoubt at the double-quick to pick up the fascines and ladders, but it was too late.