The phrase "a quick about" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to determine its intended meaning.
Example: "Can you give me a quick about on the project status?"
Alternatives: "a brief overview" or "a quick summary".
Yet it speaks to the power these players have and to the economic driver that big time college athletics, particular football and men's basketball, have become to these universities that merely the threat of an empty Arrowhead Stadium (capacity 79,451) on Saturday could lead to such a quick about face on an issue that had been plaguing the campus for years.
Presumably, the thinking in Downing Street is that once the government had been reëlected on a platform of giving the public a chance to say damn to Europe and all its works, Cameron could do a quick about turn and campaign for a yes vote in the referendum.
Few moments sum up a character as hysterically as Marge butting in on Lisa and her new cool friends "with rice crispie squares and tang" and doing a quick about face to save Lisa's street-cred.
So Mr. Greenspan delivers Tony's passionate kiss, then makes a quick about-face.
During the last slump in 1991, the home-price index did a quick about-turn and soared higher (see chart).
When the game ends, the tape shows Brooks in a quick about-face as he strides to the locker room.
B1 A QUICK ABOUT-FACE -- Led by reports of a Taliban commander's defection in Kunduz, Northern Alliance soldiers rushed to the town.
Walker and Republican leaders did a quick about-face, stripping the provision in the face of a wave of bipartisan outrage.
Hills Road didn't accept him immediately, but it performed a quick about-face when Storrie beat one of its players in a tournament two weeks later.
The sharp deceleration has left Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, and his colleagues approaching circumstances that give central bankers nightmares: realizing that they may have raised rates too much, requiring them to do a quick about-face in hopes of averting a stall that would drive up unemployment, sink the stock market and set off finger pointing about who is to blame.
The IMF's hostility required a quick about-face: Less than a year before the Indonesian uproar, Bulgaria (where I was President Stoyanov's advisor) had installed a currency board on July 1 , 1997with the enthusiastic endorsement of the IMF.
