lose no time

verb

To act quickly; do something as soon as possible.

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Meanings

verblose no time (third-person singular simple present loses no time, present participle losing no time, simple past and past participle lost no time)

present singular third person loses no time · participle present losing no time · participle past lost no time · past lost no time

  1. To act quickly; do something as soon as possible.

    London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.

    1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256
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    Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.

    1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62
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