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词汇 thick-and-fast
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thick and fast


idiom
C2
quickly and in large numbers: 大量迅速
Distress calls were pouring in, thick and fast, from all over the area.从这个区域各处迅速打进来大量紧急电话。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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
lickety-split
light speed
lightning
prompt
smartly
souped-up
speed of light
spread like wildfireidiom
streak
super-express
wildfire

Examples of thick and fast


thick and fast
These include flotsam and jetsam, frills and furbelows, and thickandfast.
The similes continue to follow thickandfast, in this one-paragraph condensation of what is claimed was an hour-long speech in council.
Chapter 6 introduces a plethora of characters working on the structure and volcanic rocks, and from here on the geologists come thickandfast.
The insults came thickandfast.
During the recent local election the usual rumours about the future of the hospital were flying thickandfast.
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I am glad to see thorn coming thickandfast.
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Information about the steel shortage has been coming to me thickandfast from many firms in my constituency.
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We have at the centre to deal with and give consideration to problems which are falling thickandfast.
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It comes so thickandfast that it is almost impossible to be on top of it.
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But, progressively since then, increases have come thickandfast.
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With overseas deployments coming thickandfast and the overall size of the armed forces in decline, overstretch is a recurring and fundamentally important problem.
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But we need to avoid unnecessary distortions as the result of specifications coming too thickandfast.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
As always, the problem is that points come thickandfast.
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I should like to face up to the objections, which are coming thickandfast.
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Therefore, lotteries will come out thickandfast until the general public will be heartily sick of them.
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