double-quick time

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Shankland got over his sickness in double-quick time.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Grealish has gone from forgotten man to main man in double-quick time since joining Everton on a season-long loan.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 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. 28, 2023

Having visited the trees again, this time on 14, he fails to get up and down from the back and that’s yet another stroke shed in double-quick time.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2020

“Do you know?” he enquired of Mary Poppins, who was whisking the crumbs off the table in double-quick time.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers