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race against time
© 2008 Copyrighted
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.
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/The workers were racing against time to finish the campus modernization project./
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in no time
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