Смысл: double-quick

double-quick1. [͵dʌblʹkwık] n воен.
<Í> беглый шаг; ускоренный марш

2. [͵dʌblʹkwık] a воен.
<Í> беглый, очень быстрый (о шаге); ускоренный
in double-quick time - быстро, в два счёта

3. [͵dʌblʹkwık] adv
<Í> 1. воен. беглым шагом; ускоренным маршем
2. очень быстро, в два счёта

stung to the quick Идиома

a quick study

someone who learns new things quickly and easily.

a quickie

a quick game or visit, a short time of play I love to play chess. Do we have time for a quickie before dinner?

cut me to the quick

hurt me, cause me to feel sad I was hurt when she called me a cow. She cut me to the quick.

quick and dirty

fast or easy, instant, short cut I know a quick and dirty way to calculate interest. It's easy.

quick buck

money earned quickly and easily (and sometimes dishonestly) The company is only interested in making a quick buck and is not at all interested in quality.

quick like a bunny

very quick, without delay Get into bed now - quick like like a bunny!

quick on the draw

"quick to speak or shoot; get the drop on" Think before you speak. Don't be so quick on the draw.

quick one

a single drink of alcohol taken before one does something else We stopped for a quick one on the way home but stayed for more than an hour.

quick study

(See a quick study)

quicker than you can say Jack Robinson

very quickly The ghost was gone - quicker 'n you can say Jack Robinson!

sting (one) to the quick

To acutely emotionally aching or affront one. The comments stung me to the quick, but I remained composed and agitated on with the lecture.Learn more: quick, sting

stung to the quick

Deeply emotionally aching or offended. I was stung to the quick to apprentice that they alleged my dress broken-down abaft my back. The hostess, stung to the quick by her guests' words, bound herself in the bedchamber upstairs.Learn more: quick, stung

cut to the quick

To be acutely wounded; to accept one’s animosity hurt. The noun “quick” agency the living, as able-bodied as the best basic and important part; today it additionally agency the actual acute beef amid the fingernails and skin. To be touched to the quick, meaning to be acutely affected, has been acclimated back the sixteenth century; it appears in John Heywood’s Proverbs and in several places in Shakespeare’s plays (Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, and others). Another adaptation is stung to the quick, as in “The aftermost appellation stung her to the quick” (Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, 1742). “Cut to the quick” is a still after diction and has been a cliché back about 1850. Apprentice added quick and the dead. Apprentice more: cut, quick

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