in short order

English

Adverb

in short order (comparative in shorter order, superlative in shortest order)

  1. In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.
    • 2014 February 7, Zachary Woolfe, “For a Sage Tenor, It’s All in the Timing”, in New York Times:
      But it may be just as much of one for the opera house administrators who have come to depend on him as a box-office draw, and for the international audiences that in remarkably short order — less than a decade, really — have embraced him as the most important, versatile tenor of his generation.

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