hurry(someone/something)up
phrasal verbwithhurryverb[IorT]uk/ˈhʌr.i/us/ˈhɝː.i/
B1
tomoveor do things morequicklythannormalor to make someone do this:
Hurry up or we'llmissthetrain.
Could youhurrythechildrenup, ortheirdinnerwill getcold.
hurry up and do sth
to do something verysoon:
All Iwantedwas for thosepeopletohurryup andleave.
- You'll be late foryourflightif you don'thurryup.
- "Come on,hurryup!" "I'll only be aminute- I've got tolockthe backdoor."
- I've beensentupstairstohurryyou lot up. Aren't youdressedyet?
- Wehurriedthechildrenup as much as we could, but some of them were just tootiredtowalkanyfaster.
- Thisjobhas to befinishedtoday,people, sohurryit up!
Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clockidiom
- against time/the clockidiom
- alacrity
- dash
- get a wiggle onidiom
- grab-and-go
- grease
- hacky
- haste
- prompt
- promptly
- promptness
- quickie
- rattlesomethingoff
- rattle throughsomething
- snap
- stroke
- tear