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crash course:

Definitions:

  1. a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency)

Examples:

  1. continued on its ground level flight a skein of geese came flying across on a crash course and both had to take emergency manoeuvres to avoid each other - the soldier sat
  2. work on a live account with a real client . " It 's a two-week crash course focusing on what it 's like to work in a large agency , packed with
  3. from the past . The Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad seems to be an on-site crash course , although many leave before learning even the core lessons . Nato , meanwhile ,
  4. ... until the shenanigans of the abnormally resilient old woman put the couple through a crash course of bizarre and lunatic landlord obligations . OUR HOUSE is the hilarious new comedy about
  5. for 5 - 11 year olds and also some activities for younger children , swimming crash courses , Kids on the Catwalk fashion show , a Young Ladies afternoon , teen aerobics

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