make\ haste\ with

make\ haste\ 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.

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