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quick off the mark
Idioms and Phrases
Fast to start or try something, as in This physician is quick off the mark in trying the newest medications . This expression comes from various kinds of races, where mark indicates the starting point. It was being used figuratively from the mid-1900s on.Example Sentences
But while Itula is quick off the mark and eloquent, the vice-president chooses her words wisely, and speaks slowly and deliberately.
Warrington were quick off the mark at the Totally Wicked Stadium, with Ashton taking centre stage, against a side that had produced the performance of the quarter-finals by thrashing Catalans in Perpignan.
Marks and Spencer was quick off the mark with its Christmas food advert, which sees the return of Dawn French as a festive fairy.
Last week, Ucas chief executive Clare Marchant said students would have to be "quick off the mark" to get a place at a top university through clearing.
"So certainly, my advice to students...is to be pretty quick off the mark if that's what you're looking for."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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