hurry (sb/sth) up
— phrasal verb with hurry uk/ˈhʌr.i/us/ˈhɝː.i/verb [ I or T ]
B1 to move or do things more quickly than normal or to make someone do this:
Hurry up or we'll miss the train.
Could you hurry the children up, or their dinner will get cold.
hurry up and do sth
to do something very soon:
All I wanted was for those people to hurry up and leave.
More examples
- You'll be late for your flight if you don't hurry up.
- "Come on, hurry up!" "I'll only be a minute - I've got to lock the back door."
- I've been sent upstairs to hurry you lot up. Aren't you dressed yet?
- We hurried the children up as much as we could, but some of them were just too tired to walk any faster.
- This job has to be finished today, people, so hurry it up!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clock idiom
- against time/the clock idiom
- alacrity
- dose
- grease
- haste
- hasten
- hasty
- hit/press/push the panic button idiom
- patch
- rush
- rush into sth
- rush job
- rushed
- scrabble
- sharpish
- snap
- throw
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