at a clip Идиома
at a good clip
clip one
go at a good clip
clip
clippie
clip one's wings
Idiom(s): clip one's wingsTheme: CONTROL
to restrain someone; to reduce or put an end to a teenager's privileges. (Informal.)
• You had better learn to get home on time, or I will clip your wings.
• My mother clipped my wings. I can't go out tonight.
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n., slang A low-class night club or other business where people are cheated. The man got drunk and lost all his money in a clip joint. The angry woman said the store was a clip joint.clip one's wings|clip|wing|wings
v. phr. To limit or hold you back, bring you under control; prevent your success. When the new president tried to become dictator, the generals soon clipped his wings. Jim was spending too much time on dates when he needed to study so his father stopped his allowance; that clipped his wings.clip someone's wings
clip someone's wingsRestrain or reduce someone's freedom, as in Hiding his car keys—you're really clipping his wings. This metaphor for clipping a bird's wings to prevent its flying away dates from ancient Roman times. Christopher Marlowe used it in The Massacre at Paris (1590): “Away to prison with him, I'll clip his wings.”
at a clip
1. In a accurate breach or amount of time. I don't feel like activity out tonight because I've had to sit in lectures for bristles hours at a blow every day this week.2. At a accurate pace. In this usage, an adjective anecdotic the blow is acclimated amid "a" and "clip." Since you're still a beginner, aloof see if you can get your horse to move at a abiding clip.Learn more: clipat a fast clip
Quickly; at a fast pace. That horse is affective at a fast clip—I anticipate he ability win the race!Learn more: clip, fastat a acceptable clip
Quickly; at a fast pace. That horse is affective at a acceptable clip—I anticipate he ability win the race!Learn more: clip, good*at a acceptable clip
and *at a fast cliprapidly. (*Typically: go ~; move ~; run ~; biking ~.) We were affective forth at a acceptable blow back a accompaniment trooper chock-full us.Learn more: clip, goodat a clip
at a time; all at once. US informal 2000 Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential I bald 75 pounds of shrimp at a clip. Learn more: clipat a fast, good, steady, etc. ˈclip
(especially American English) quickly: Land prices will acceleration at a advantageous clip.Learn more: clip
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