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单词 mercy dash
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Definition of mercy dash in English:

mercy dash

noun
British informal
  • An urgent journey undertaken out of a desire to relieve suffering.

    the mercy dash by ambulance from Carlow to Kilkenny tragically proved in vain
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Feel free to call me any time you want a mercy dash to the Italian restaurant.
    • The petition calls for a change in the law to protect crews on mercy dashes.
    • She wrapped the boy in a blanket and said she was going to make a mercy dash to the hospital.
    • He was on a mercy dash to a friend in trouble.
    • My mother had travelled up from Kent, a mercy dash to support the children and me in a time of crisis.
    • I certainly appreciated Dad's mercy dash that night.
    • She performed a mercy dash to get her seriously ill father to hospital several hundred miles away.
    • The coastal minehunter had just completed a mercy dash from an outlying island some 140 kilometres away.
    • We took it in turns to make mercy dashes to the iced water dispenser.
    • The cruise ship answered a midnight Mayday and altered course to make a mercy dash off the Dorset coast.
 
 
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