Lickety-split vs Posthaste - What's the difference?
lickety-split | posthaste | Related terms |
Quickly; as fast as possible; in short order.
quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed
* 1946 — , Ch. 17
* 1602 : , act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
Lickety-split is a related term of posthaste.
As adverbs the difference between lickety-split and posthaste
is that lickety-split is quickly; as fast as possible; in short order while posthaste is quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.As a noun posthaste is
.lickety-split
English
Adverb
- At the sound of the starting gun, they were off and running lickety-split .
References
*posthaste
English
Alternative forms
* post-haste, post hasteAdverb
(-)- It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste .
- "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.
Synonyms
* (quickly) ASAP, quickly * See alsoNoun
(-)- ''"And this, I take it,
- ''Is the main motive of our preparations
- ''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
- Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."