| 词汇 | lickety-split |
| 释义 | lickety-split adverb old-fashionedinformaluk /ˌlɪk.ə.tiˈsplɪt/ us /ˌlɪk.ə.t̬iˈsplɪt/ very quickly飞快地，迅速地 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 hypersonic in the twinkling of an eyeidiom Jack Robinson light speed lightning like a shotidiom prompt souped-up speed of light spread like wildfireidiom streak super-express superfast wildfire Examples of lickety-splitlickety-split We would take that in a lickety-split second. From Los Angeles Times If she gets the answer "lickety-split," as her dad says, she can check it off. From NPR The class is nonstop, moving lickety-split from jumping jacks to cross-over steps, squats, mountain climbers and other familiar exercises. From Los Angeles Times Men in shaggy trousers on horses threw ropes about each other and picked up handkerchiefs from the ground while their horses were running lickety-split. From Project Gutenberg And away he goes at the head of the string, lickety-split for the beach. From Project Gutenberg And, as if that weren't enough, his daddy is standing up on a horse and the horse is going round the ring lickety-split. From Project Gutenberg Well, he got her out and started lickety-split up the main line, running wild and without orders. From Project Gutenberg He drives helter-skelter, lickety-split, and never takes care of his car at all. From Project Gutenberg She thought her last-day was come, with the fences streaking past her lickety-split. From Project Gutenberg 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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