RACE AGAINST TIME
race against time: translation
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./