FAST AND RAPID

FAST AND RAPID

1. AT FULL SPEED/TILT

   • AS FAST AS POSSIBLE

2. A MILE A MINUTE

   • VERY FAST
   • GO/MOVE/TALK/TRAVEL

3. AS IF IT IS GOING OUT OF STYLE

   • very quickly or much more than people normally do

4. BREAKNECK

   • dangerously or extremely fast: he drove at breakneck speed

5. AS FAST AS YOUR LEGS WOULD CARRY YOU

6. BLISTERING

   • (of heat) intense: the blistering heat of the desert
   • extremely fast, forceful, or impressive: Burke set a blistering pace
   • (of criticism) expressed with great vehemence: blistering diatribes

7. FULL STEAM (SPEED) AHEAD

   • used to indicate that one should proceed with as much speed or energy as possible
   • Even though interviews are going full speed ahead, we don't have that many candidates

8. LIKE HOT CAKES

   • GO/SELL

9. BRISK

   • active, fast, and energetic: a good brisk walk

10. HUSTLE

    • force (someone) to move hurriedly or unceremoniously in a specified direction: they hustled him into the back of a horse-drawn wagon
      • BUNDLE
        • informal push or carry forcibly: he was bundled into a van
        • send (someone) away hurriedly or unceremoniously: the old man was bundled off into exile
        • a collection of things, or a quantity of material, tied or wrapped up together: a thick bundle of envelopes
    • push roughly; jostle: they were hissed and hustled as they went in
    • (hustle someone into) coerce or pressure someone into doing or choosing something: don’t be hustled into anything

11. HOTFOOT

    • in eager haste: he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object
    • walk or run quickly and eagerly: we hotfooted it after him

12. IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

13. HEADLONG

    • in a rush; with reckless haste
    • without thinking, without forethought, rashly, recklessly, carelessly, hastily, breakneck, whirlwind; reckless,

14. BEFORE YOU CAN SAY JACK ROBINSON

15. LIKE A SHOT

    • informal without hesitation; willingly: “Would you go back?” “Like a shot.”

16. LIKE A STREAK (OF LIGHTNING)

    • informal very fast: he is off like a streak

17. METEORIC

    • (of the development of something, especially a person’s career) very rapid: her meteoric rise to the top of her profession

18. PDQ

    • informal pretty damn quick.

19. PRECIPITOUS

    • (of an action) done suddenly and without careful consideration: precipitous intervention
    • dangerously high or steep: the precipitous cliffs of the North Atlantic coast

20. SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE

    • spread with great speed: the news had spread like wildfire

21. SWIFT

    • happening quickly or promptly: a remarkably swift recovery
    • moving or capable of moving at high speed: the water was very swift

22. WHOOSH

    • a sudden movement accompanied by a rushing sound: there was a big whoosh of air
    • move or cause to move quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound: [no object]: a train whooshed by