be in a tearing hurry
UK old-fashionedto be going somewhere very quickly, usually because you are late
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Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clock idiom
- against time/the clock idiom
- alacrity
- dose
- haste
- hasten
- hasty
- hit/press/push the panic button idiom
- hurried
- patch
- rush
- rush into sth
- rush job
- rushed
- scrabble
- sharpish
- snap
- throw
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