单词 | a mile a minute |
释义 | > as lemmasa mile a minute b. a mile a minute: at a rate of a mile a minute; (figurative) very quickly. ΚΠ 1845 Littell's Living Age 2 Aug. 223/2 The Exeter Express train..was proceeding towards Slough with great velocity, (it was asserted more than a mile a minute). 1895 Overland Monthly Nov. 556/2 The games in these localities often consist of snowshoe racing, and so great is the speed attained on a good track..that a mile a minute is made. 1935 C. Odets Till Day I Die in Six Plays (1939) 119 The next day he would be wearing a brown shirt and killing workers a mile a minute. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xv. 287 Pierre Vautier, smiling, gesturing and talking a mile a minute to an attractive brunette. 1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories iii. 123 Away he went at the digging a mile a minute throwing the earth up..as if it was coming out of a hosepipe. 1994 i-D Oct. 32/1 He still talks a mile a minute and is as keen as ever to riff on his favourite topic: the movies. < as lemmas |
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