hurry\ on\ with

hurry\ on\ with
• hurry on with
• make haste with
v. phr.
To make rapid progress in an undertaking.

Sue promised to hurry on with the report and send it out today.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • hurry off with — index distrain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • hurry on with — or[make haste with] {v. phr.} To make rapid progress in an undertaking. * /Sue promised to hurry on with the report and send it out today./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • hurry on with — or[make haste with] {v. phr.} To make rapid progress in an undertaking. * /Sue promised to hurry on with the report and send it out today./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • hurry up (with something) — ˌhurry ˈup (with sth) derived to do sth more quickly because there is not much time • I wish the bus would hurry up and come. • Hurry up! We re going to be late. • Hurry up with the scissors. I need them. Main entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • in a hurry usu. with negative — informal easily; readily: an experience you won t forget in a hurry. → hurry …   English new terms dictionary

  • hurry-scurry — 1732, probably a reduplication of HURRY (Cf. hurry) formed with awareness of SCURRY (Cf. scurry) …   Etymology dictionary

  • hurry — 1 verb 1 (I, T) to do something or go somewhere more quickly than usual, especially because there is not much time: The movie begins as six we ll have to hurry. | hurry through/along/down etc: She hurried down the corridor as fast as she could. | …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • hurry — hur|ry1 [ hʌri ] verb intransitive ** to do something or move somewhere very quickly: We must hurry or we shall be late back. Alec had to hurry home, but I stayed on. hurry along/through/into: She hurried along the corridor toward his office. He… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • hurry up — I PHRASAL VERB If you tell someone to hurry up, you are telling them do something more quickly than they were doing. [V P] Franklin told Howe to hurry up and take his bath; otherwise, they d miss their train... [V P with n] Hurry up with that… …   English dictionary

  • hurry up — phrasal verb Word forms hurry up : present tense I/you/we/they hurry up he/she/it hurries up present participle hurrying up past tense hurried up past participle hurried up 1) [intransitive] mainly spoken used for telling someone to do something… …   English dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”