race against time

race against time
race against time
1. a rush; a rush to beat a deadline. •

We were in a race against time to beat the deadline.

It was a race against time, but we made it.

2. to hurry to beat a deadline. •

We had to race against time to finish before the deadline.

You don't need to race against time. Take all the time you want.

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{v. phr.} To be in a great hurry to finish a given project by a specified deadline. * /The workers were racing against time to finish the campus modernization project./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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