lose no time

English

Verb

lose no time (third-person singular simple present loses no time, present participle losing no time, simple past and past participle lost no time)

1. To act quickly; do something as soon as possible.
   • 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

     Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.

   • 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256:

     London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.

References

• “lose no time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “lose no time”, in Collins English Dictionary.