make haste

Related to make haste: out of whack, Make haste slowly, slow on the uptake, made haste

make haste

To move, speak, or act quickly, especially when one was being too slow before. Often said as a command. We'll need to make haste if we're going to catch that train! Make haste, Jonathan, I need that report ASAP!

make haste

Also, make it snappy. Hurry up, move or act quickly, as in If you don't make haste we'll be late, or Make it snappy, kids. The first expression was first recorded in Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible (Psalms 39:13): "Make haste, O Lord, to help me." The variant dates from the early 1900s and uses snappy in the sense of "resembling a sudden jerk." The oxymoron make haste slowly, dating from the mid-1700s, is a translation of the Latin festina lente. It is used either ironically, to slow someone down (as in You'll do better if you make haste slowly), or to comment sarcastically on a lack of progress (as in So far the committee has been making haste slowly).

make haste

To move or act swiftly; hurry.

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释义	make haste Related to make haste: out of whack, Make haste slowly, slow on the uptake, made haste make haste To move, speak, or act quickly, especially when one was being too slow before. Often said as a command. We'll need to make haste if we're going to catch that train! Make haste, Jonathan, I need that report ASAP! See also: haste, make Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. make haste Also, make it snappy. Hurry up, move or act quickly, as in If you don't make haste we'll be late, or Make it snappy, kids. The first expression was first recorded in Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible (Psalms 39:13): "Make haste, O Lord, to help me." The variant dates from the early 1900s and uses snappy in the sense of "resembling a sudden jerk." The oxymoron make haste slowly, dating from the mid-1700s, is a translation of the Latin festina lente. It is used either ironically, to slow someone down (as in You'll do better if you make haste slowly), or to comment sarcastically on a lack of progress (as in So far the committee has been making haste slowly). See also: haste, make The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. make haste To move or act swiftly; hurry. See also: haste, make American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. See also: slowly catching put foot catch (one) with (one's) pants down catch somebody with their pants down catch someone with their pants down catch with pants down catch-as-catch-can catch as catch can catch (one) later
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