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Idiom

snap it up

Meaning

To hurry, to proceed quickly.

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

Examples

“The tickets are cheap, so you should snap it up.”

“If you see a good deal on those shoes, you need to snap it up before someone else does.”

“When the rare collection appeared at the auction, the eager bidders moved quickly to snap it up before the price rose further.”

Examples

simple

“The tickets are cheap, so you should snap it up.”

contextual

“If you see a good deal on those shoes, you need to snap it up before someone else does.”

complex

“When the rare collection appeared at the auction, the eager bidders moved quickly to snap it up before the price rose further.”

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