make quick work of

verb

Definitions

  1. To accomplish a specified task easily and quickly.

    • The cupbearers made quick work of the after-dinner cleanup chores.
  2. To kill a specified person easily and quickly.

    • The spiders made quick work of the human soldiers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for make quick work of. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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