Be quick, be quick with.
1849. Girls, hurry up breakfast.—Frontier Guardian, July 25. [For a fuller quotation see JOHNNY-CAKE.]
1856. Urged forward by the stentorian lungs of the bridge-tender, who, seeing more vessels already approaching, vociferates, ‘Hurry up! vessels coming! bridge must open!’—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 633 (June).
1859. You small boy there, hurry up that ‘Webster’s Unabridged!’—Holmes, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,’ chap. ii.
1866. I was relieved to hear the waiter, in a voice calculated to alarm all the hens in the neighborhood, request the unseen caterer below to hurry up “them three eggs three minutes.”—Yale Lit. Mag., xxxi. 230 (April).
