| 单词 | on the double |
| 释义 | on the doubleSEE SYNONYMS FOR on the double ON THESAURUS.COM Very quickly, as in You'd better get here on the double. This expression, also put as at the double, came from the military, where it means “double time”—that is, marching twice as fast as normally. [Early 1800s] Words nearby on the doubleon the chin, on the contrary, on the cuff, on the defensive, on the dot, on the double, on the edge, on the eve of, on the face of it, on the fly, on the fritz The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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