double-quick
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The brutal realities of life as a Celtic manager have descended on his head in double-quick time.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
If you want to feel well-read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2022
He crashes down to +2 in double-quick time.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2021
It has three speeds: slow, quick and double-quick.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
He responded with an irritable hissing and thumping from deep in his burrow, causing me to pull my leg out of there double-quick, despite the pain.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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