crash course

noun

1. a brief, intensive course of instruction, as to prepare one quickly for a test.

Idioms and Phrases

A short, intensive training course, as in Daisy planned to take a crash course in cooking before she got married . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

“Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective” will offer a crash course in a critically vaunted musician who has a passionate cult following — including many Hollywood stars — but who has always been a little hard to pin down.

From Los Angeles Times

So then he was like in a crash course.

From Los Angeles Times

When I took on this project, they put me through a two-week crash course," he continues. "I learned that quite quickly because I obviously have a grasp of the language.

From Salon

Federal Reserve officials are fiercely protective of their separation from politics, but the presidential election is putting the institution on a crash course with partisan wrangling.

From New York Times

Before filming began, she took a ballet crash course with the choreographer Belinda Murphy, who taught Weir the rudiments of dancing in pointe shoes and shaped the extended ballet sequence that opens the film.

From New York Times