double quick

double quick

Extra fast. Primarily heard in UK. We need to move double quick if we're going to have any chance of making this flight.
See also: double, quick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ˌdouble ˈquick

(British English, informal) very quick(ly): If the machine starts making a hissing noise, then turn it off double quick.
See also: double, quick
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • at the double
  • on the double
  • double sawbuck
  • dub
  • double
  • do a double take
  • double take, do a
  • taker
  • a double taker
  • double up with (someone)
References in periodicals archive
A February 2015 article in the trade magazine for the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America notes Double Quick brought "cutting-edge" convenience store marketing to the small towns and rural reaches of Mississippi and Arkansas.
The financing also is secured by the 5.7-acre Double Quick Plaza/Otter Creek Business Park at 11701 Interstate 30, owned by the Alley brothers.
You have to give them other reasons to stop in, said Tom Gresham, president and co-owner of Double Quick. "We have done a good job of finding other items to sell.
2012: Helps Saints (right) leap from League One to the Premier League in double quick time.
DOUBLE QUICK Hundreds rush to use the Bank of Scotland ATM as it pays out too much
Time for Achy Breaky dad Billy-Ray to have a word, stage an intervention and maybe open his little girl an account at Victoria's Secret double quick before she gets over-exposed.
Chances are they'll soon be arriving double quick by special delivery, albeit 60 years late.
A gentleman from the garage came over and changed the wheel for me - including finding the locking wheel nut - in double quick time (or at least much faster than I would have been able to) and we made it to the concert on time.
I felt a bit poorly, a little bit sick, But the news I received made me run double quick Back home to tell him, "Get out that old cot!" Panicking wildly, he stuttered, "What?" Slowly but surely we found a routine, Enjoying our baby, a gift unforeseen.
I feel sure that this would concentrate his mind in double quick time.
Despite their poor run, Hull are seven points off the dropzone, but insuchatight division that lead could go in double quick time.
Let us hope for some encouraging news on many of the walking wounded double quick.
Without midfielder Mike Garrity, defender James Glendenning and striker Anthony Wright through suspension and defenders Carl Spellman and Mike Tomlinson, plus striker Karl O'Donnell, through injury, Motors took just 84 seconds to give notice of their intentions, as new signing Sam McNutt played in returned striker Leighton McGivern to fire them ahead in double quick time.
The 1.2-acre Double Quick Plaza development at 3820 Camp Robinson Road previously was tied to a September 1999 mortgage of $1.5 million held by Central Bank & Trust of Little Rock.
One of only a handful of companies in the UK to have gained certification under the TickIT scheme, which applies particularly to software development, Kalamazoo has passed the stringent quality audit in double quick time.