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in short order

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in short order
very quickly. I can straighten out this mess in short order. The maids came in and cleaned the place up in short order.
See also: order, short

in short order
very quickly He was able to deal with the scheduling problems in short order. In short order, she became head waiter.
See also: order, short


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His mighty strokes bade fair to close up the distance between us in short order, for at best I could make but slow progress with my unfamiliar craft, which nosed stubbornly in every direction but that which I desired to follow, so that fully half my energy was expended in turning its blunt prow back into the course.
Quick as lightning they were upon him, and Tars Tarkas would have been gathered to his fathers in short order had I not sprung before his prostrate form and engaged his adversaries.
Anybody who has reorganized and recatalogued a great city library should be able to start you young people on in short order.
 
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