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Discover LudwigThe phrase "quick off the mark" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to describe someone who is quick to respond or act. Example: She was quick off the mark when it came to understanding the new task assigned to her.
Idiom
Quick off the mark.
If someone is quick off the mark, they are very quick to use, start or do something new.
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The ALP are quick off the mark.
In London, Johnson was quick off the mark.
Perhaps it was a bit quick off the mark.
Some were just a bit too quick off the mark.
City and Islington was quick off the mark.
The once-infested were also less quick off the mark when the time came to sing.
He was a natural goalscorer, two-footed, quick off the mark, and a really good finisher.
Only the ruling Congress party was quick off the mark to question the court ruling.
The consultants, as you would expect, were quick off the mark.
Most are quick off the mark, thanks to the ability of an electric motor to deliver torque almost instantly.
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History took a giant step forward in June with the Supreme Court's watershed rulings on marriage equality, and naturally it will take artists, even those notoriously quick-off-the-mark filmmakers, a bit of time to transform such momentous news into meditative reflection.
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