making short work of
Swiftly completing something
Making short work of something is dealing with it quickly and efficiently, often with implied ease or dominance.
You might make short work of a meal when hungry, make short work of an opponent in competition, or make short work of a task you're skilled at: The experienced crew made short work of the cleanup.
- conquerOvercome by force
- quickMoving with speed
- rapidMoving with haste
- resolveFirmness of purpose
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
dispatch · no sweat · easy as pie · surmount · defeat · vanquish · overcome · cutting through · knocking out · expeditious · triumph · accelerated · tackle · getting through · done and dusted · prompt · brisk · breeze through
making short work ofdragging out
Extending duration needlessly
prolonging · drawing out · slogging through · stretching out · muddling through
makers, making, remaking, short, shorts, shorter, shortest, shorten, shortened