| 词汇 | like-the-clappers |
| 释义 | like the clappersidiomUKold-fashionedinformal extremely fast: 飞快地 You'll have to run like the clappers if you want to catch your train.要是你想赶上火车就得飞奔。 to move fast speedHe ran back to his car and sped off. raceShe raced over and hugged me. flyShe flew across the room just in time to stop the baby falling off the chair. beltUKTraffic was belting along the motorway. tearA fire truck came tearing down the road. streakBullets streaked across the sky. Hurrying and doing things quickly accelerate acceleration against the clockidiom against time/the clockidiom alacrity dash get a wiggle onidiom grab-and-go grease hacky haste prompt promptness quickie rattle something off rattle through something rush into something snap stroke tear Examples of like the clapperslike the clappers We speak also of going liketheclappers; this too is a nautical expression. So they were all very disappointed, as were my staff, who had worked liketheclappers to organise the debate. 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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