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quick off the mark



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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.

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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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