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Idiom

fast and furious

Meaning

Rapid and energetic.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“The game was fast and furious from the start.”

“The final minutes of the match were fast and furious as both teams tried to score the winning goal.”

“The negotiations proceeded at a fast and furious pace, leaving the exhausted delegates little time to consider the long-term implications of their decisions.”

Examples

simple

“The game was fast and furious from the start.”

contextual

“The final minutes of the match were fast and furious as both teams tried to score the winning goal.”

complex

“The negotiations proceeded at a fast and furious pace, leaving the exhausted delegates little time to consider the long-term implications of their decisions.”

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