hurry (someone/something) up
phrasal verb with hurry verb [ I or T ] uk/ˈhʌr.i/ us/ˈhɝː.i/
B1 （使）加快，催促
to move or do things more quickly than normal or to make someone do this
Hurry up or we'll miss the train. 快点儿，要不我们就赶不上火车了。
Could you hurry the children up, or their dinner will get cold. 你能不能去催催孩子们，要不他们的晚饭都凉了。
hurry up and do sth （使某人）匆忙做（某事）
to do something very soon
All I wanted was for those people to hurry up and leave. 我只想那些人快点做完离开。
Retailers are hoping that people will hurry up and spend the money they've been saving for the last year or so.
I wish my landlord would hurry up and get the roof fixed.
Can you just hurry up and say what you want to say, please?
Hurry up and get changed. We're going out for dinner.
- More examples
- You'll be late for your flight if you don't hurry up.
- "Come on, hurry up!" "I'll only be a minute - I've got to lock the back door."
- I've been sent upstairs to hurry you lot up. Aren't you dressed yet?
- We hurried the children up as much as we could, but some of them were just too tired to walk any faster.
- This job has to be finished today, people, so hurry it up!