词汇 | hotfoot |
释义 | hotfoot adverb informaluk /ˌhɒtˈfʊt/ us /ˈhɑːt.fʊt/ very quickly and without delay: 匆忙地,飞快地 She'd come hotfoot from the palace with the latest news.她急匆匆地从宫里带来了最新的消息。 Fast and rapid (at) full speed/tilt/peltidiom apace as fast as your legs would carry youidiom as if it is going out of styleidiom at a rate of knotsidiom fleet in the twinkling of an eyeidiom Jack Robinson lickety-split light speed lightning like a shotidiom prompt souped-up speed of light spread like wildfireidiom streak super-express superfast wildfire hotfoot verb uk /ˈhɒt.fʊt/ us /ˈhɑːt.fʊt/ hotfoot itinformal to go somewhere as quickly as possible: 快跑;疾走 He walked in and I hotfooted it out the back door.他走了进来,而我很快从后门溜了出去。 Examples of hotfoothotfoot When, eventually, work began in the new layout they were very quickly hotfooting back to me urging me to extend the distance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am convinced that, with clause 91, he will be hotfooting to court week after week whenever someone digs up the road near him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, permanent secretaries were rushing hotfoot from one committee to the other to give evidence on what were not very dissimilar questions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You came in hotfoot from the market, the market dust still on your feet, and you went into the magistrates' court for justice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He might be bringing some news hotfoot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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