| 词组 | mile a minute |
| 释义 | Idiom mile a minute American & Australian very quickly.Mike was very excited and talking a mile a minute.My heart beat a mile a minute waiting for his plane to land. mile a minuteAt a very rapid pace. Taylor was so excited to tell me about her first day at school that she was talking a mile a minute. *mile a minuteFig. very fast. (*Typically: go ~; move ~; talk ~; travel ~.) She talks a mile a minute and is very hard to keep up with. mile a minute, aVery rapidly, as in She was talking a mile a minute about the accident. This expression, alluding to the literal speed of 60 miles per hour, dates from the mid-1900s, when that speed was considered very fast, but it has survived into times of much greater velocity. a mile a minuteIf you do something or something happens a mile a minute, you do it or it happens very fast. Claire was a good kid, though she talked a mile a minute and Maggie often felt exhausted when she left. His mind works a mile a minute, constantly full of ideas. a mile a minutevery quickly. informalAs a noun, mile a minute is a popular nickname for the quick-growing climbing plant Russian Vine. mile a minute, aVery fast. As one might guess, this term dates only from the days when this literal speed was relatively reasonable. The OED cites its first use in a 1957 issue of Railway Magazine, announcing “a new table of their mile-a-minute runs.” It frequently is used figuratively, as in “He was talking a mile a minute.” |
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