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单词 to lose no time
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to lose no time
(a) to lose no time and variants: to act without delay, take urgent action; to be quick (in beginning or doing something).
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1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 534 They dooing in euery thing as they were bidden loste no tyme, but so sped theim that shortely they obteygned and gate into the countie of Angeou.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. vii. f. 58v Get thee hence with all possible spede, and lose no time in doing this thy message.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. v. 155 We must lose no time. Resolve your selfe therefore to go to Morocco with Cydaria.
1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 155 The king lost no time in making use of the liberty of remarrying.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Snack Be snack, be quick, do not lose time.
1874 W. P. Lennox My Recoll. II. 72 My guide then informing me that within three miles there were several salmon pools, I lost no time in proceeding there.
1903 W. B. Yeats Let. 25 Oct. (1994) III. 454 It forms part of a book my sisters are now going to print, and which will probably be published soon after Christmas, so I must lose no time about it.
1922 S. Ford Trilby May crashes In xi. 182 ‘I think that gives me a hunch.’ I didn't lose any time in following it, either.
1960 Baseball Digest Feb. 76 I still was burning when it was all over and lost no time busting into the officials' room to chew them out.
2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 23 Once they finally reached Agra..she lost no time in breaking the shocking news to the servants of her new household.
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