Hasty Phrases

Phrases

• A bit previous
• All of a sudden
• As fast as greased lightning
• As fast as his legs could carry him
• Bad news travels fast
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Blazing fast
• Boutros Boutros Ghali (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Don't be hasty
• Fast Freddie (Nickname of Andrew Flintoff - English cricketer)
• Fast acting
• Fast and furious
• Fast as greased lightning
• Fast as his legs could carry him

• Fast buck
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Fast forward
• Fast lane
• Fast mover
• Fast movers (US and Canadian military slang term for jet fighters, especially ground)
• Fast track
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Get nowhere fast
• Go ahead, make my day (A catchphrase from Sudden Impact)
• Go off at half cock
• Going nowhere fast
• Hard and fast
• Haste makes waste
• Hasten away

• Hold fast
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• In the heat of the moment
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Life in the fast lane
• Like a bull at a gate
• Make fast
• Make haste
• Make haste slowly
• Marry in haste, repent at leisure
• More haste, less speed
• Not so fast
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)

• Play fast and loose
• Post haste
• Pull a fast one
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Premature Burial
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• Thick and fast
• Think fast
• Which was nice (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure