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race against time

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[race against time] {v. phr.}

To be in a great hurry to finish a given project by a specified deadline.

* /The workers were racing against time to finish the campus modernization project./

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	time ⁵⁵⁰ {v. phr.} ²¹⁸²

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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