Idiom
race against time
Meaning
A situation in which something must be done hurriedly, before a deadline.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We are in a race against time to finish this project.”
“The rescue team is in a race against time to find the hikers before the storm hits the mountain.”
“As the deadline approached, the engineers found themselves in a desperate race against time to repair the failing system before the entire network collapsed.”
Examples
simple
“We are in a race against time to finish this project.”
contextual
“The rescue team is in a race against time to find the hikers before the storm hits the mountain.”
complex
“As the deadline approached, the engineers found themselves in a desperate race against time to repair the failing system before the entire network collapsed.”
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