gallop through something
Frequency: 6.05.5 per million words
(figurative) To deal with or progress through something very quickly.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The documentary starts with a gallop through the history of television.
- We galloped through the agenda and finished the meeting in twenty minutes.
- She tends to gallop through her slides and leave little time for questions.
- The class will gallop through Chapters 1–5 before the midterm.
- I galloped through the forms just to meet the deadline, and now I regret it.
- Don't gallop through the exercise; accuracy matters more than speed.
- The report gallops through the data without offering analysis.
- He galloped through the exam questions and missed several details.
- Let’s not gallop through this negotiation; we need to consider every clause.
- In the workshop, we’ll gallop through the basics before diving deeper.