urge someone to hurry

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• urge on — verb 1. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers • Syn: ↑cheer, ↑root on, ↑inspire, ↑urge, ↑barrack, ↑exhort, ↑pep up …   Useful english dictionary

• urge — [[t]ɜ͟ː(r)ʤ[/t]] ♦♦ urges, urging, urged 1) VERB If you urge someone to do something, you try hard to persuade them to do it. [V n to inf] They urged parliament to approve plans for their reform programme... [V n to inf] He urged employers and… …   English dictionary

• hurry-up — /ˈhʌri ʌp/ (say huree up) noun 1. a reminder or prompting to action: go and give them a hurry up. –adjective 2. prompting; urging: a hurry up call. –phrase 3. give someone a hurry up, Colloquial to urge someone to greater speed …  

• hurry — hurryingly, adv. /herr ee, hur ee/, v., hurried, hurrying, n., pl. hurries. v.i. 1. to move, proceed, or act with haste (often fol. by up): Hurry, or we ll be late. Hurry up, it s starting to rain. v.t. 2. to drive, carry, or cause to move or… …   Universalium

• hurry — hur•ry [[t]ˈhɜr i, ˈhʌr i[/t]] v. ried, ry•ing, 1) to move, proceed, or act with haste (often fol. by up) 2) to drive, carry, or cause to move with speed 3) to hasten; urge forward (often fol. by up) 4) to impel or perform with undue haste; rush …   From formal English to slang

• hurry — [c]/ˈhʌri / (say huree) verb (hurried, hurrying) –verb (i) Also, hurry up. 1. to move, proceed, or act with haste, often undue haste. –verb (t) 2. to drive or move (someone or something) with speed, often with confused haste. 3. Also, hurry up.… …  

• chop-chop — exclamation & adverb quickly (said to urge someone to hurry up). Origin C19: pidgin Engl., based on Chin. dialect kuaì kuaì; cf. chopstick …   English new terms dictionary

• Shit or get off the pot — is a common English language expression, used to urge someone to complete a task with a greater degree of efficiency or timeliness than is observed at the time the expression is used.DerivationIt may derive from the time before indoor plumbing… …   Wikipedia

• List of The Cosby Show episodes — The following is a list of episodes for the NBC television sitcom, The Cosby Show. The series aired from September 20, 1984 to April 30, 1992 with 201 episodes produced spanning 8 seasons. (Note: It should not be confused with the subsequent, and …   Wikipedia

• drive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. propel, impel; urge forward, pursue; steer, control; conduct, carry out; ram, hammer, thrust; urge, force, compel, coerce. See compulsion, travel, propulsion, energy, haste. II (Roget s IV) n. 1.… …   English dictionary for students

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium