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^[1]:

     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.

   • 2023 May 31, “Open Access: On-train table manners”, in RAIL, number 984, page 63:

     She was scandalised by my suggestion that she should have bought the other three seats, in order to use the table as an office space. Her solution was that I should go and sit elsewhere. Her appeal to the ticket inspector/guard was rebuffed in short order.

Translations

quickly

• Finnish: lyhyen kaavan mukaan
• Hungarian: gyorsan (hu), hamar (hu), sebtében (hu)
• Italian: velocemente (it), rapidamente (it)