go at a good clip

verb

To go fast

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Meanings

verbgo at a good clip (third-person singular simple present goes at a good clip, present participle going at a good clip, simple past went at a good clip, past participle gone at a good clip)

present singular third person goes at a good clip · participle present going at a good clip · past went at a good clip · participle past gone at a good clip

  1. idiomaticTo go fast

    Without Da's slowing the pace, I was able to go at a good clip, stopping only to catch my breath every hour or so

    2015, Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris, The Rogues
    1 more example

    The driver told me that at five o'clock there was a direct bus for Lyon on the main road, three kilometers from there. So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road.

    1993, Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo
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