go at a good clip
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[edit]Verb
[edit]go at a good clip (third-person singular simple present goes at a good clip, present participle going at a good clip, simple past went at a good clip, past participle gone at a good clip)
- (idiomatic) To go fast
- 1993, Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo:
- The driver told me that at five o'clock there was a direct bus for Lyon on the main road, three kilometers from there. So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road.
- 2015, Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris, The Rogues:
- Without Da's slowing the pace, I was able to go at a good clip, stopping only to catch my breath every hour or so