pull fast one
拔苗助长,拔刀相助,快跑
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fast·er, fast·est.
- : moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse;a fast pain reliever;a fast thinker.
- : done in comparatively little time; taking a comparatively short time: a fast race;fast work.
- : indicating a time in advance of the correct time, as of a clock.noting or according to daylight-saving time.
- : adapted to, allowing, productive of, or imparting rapid movement: a hull with fast lines;one of the fastest pitchers in baseball.
- : characterized by unrestrained conduct or lack of moral conventions, especially in sexual relations; wanton; loose: Some young people in that era were considered fast, if not downright promiscuous.
- : characterized by hectic activity: leading a fast life.
- : resistant: acid-fast.
- : firmly fixed in place; not easily moved; securely attached.
- : held or caught firmly, so as to be unable to escape or be extricated: an animal fast in a trap.
- : firmly tied, as a knot.
- : closed and made secure, as a door, gate, or shutter.
Phrases
- fast and furious
- fast and loose
- fast buck
- fast lane
- fast track
- get nowhere (fast)
- hard and fast
- pull a fast one
- stand one's ground (fast)
- thick and fast
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Examples
“It’s a big goal, but I think we could do $75-100 million in sales next year with Fabletics Men, which is our first full year with this line, which would be very, very fast growth,” Goldenberg says.
The upshot is a technology that provides a fast and low cost way to reduce emissions, Johnson told TechCrunch.
Huoseh would challenge his players to record the fastest times possible in their runs before ending the session with a scrimmage and a visit to a nearby Subway for lunch.
Together with astrophysicists Ke Fang of Stanford University and Ben Margalit of the University of California, Berkeley, Metzger calculated the energies of any neutrinos that would have been produced by the fast radio burst seen in April.
The tablet comes with a so-called A12 Bionic chip, designed by Apple, that gives it a 40% CPU speed boost and graphics that are twice as fast as last year’s model.
The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.
Both high fashion and the fast, commercial fashion of Target are supposed to be about aspiration.
And if people find themselves dissatisfied with how often they turn to fast food, Bacon says to try things like batch cooking.
While grocery shopping a guy I had noticed following me earlier, walked by me really fast and said, ‘You look shorter in person.’
Incidentally, Rousteing has no qualms with fast-fashion brands appropriating his designs either.
The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them.
There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.