sail in


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sail

verb
1. To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom.
Informal: hotfoot, rip.
Slang: barrel, highball.
Chiefly British: nip.
Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step on it.
2. To pass quickly and lightly through the air:
dart, float, fly, shoot, skim.
3. To move through the air with or as if with wings:
flap, flit, flitter, flutter, fly, wing.
4. To proceed with ease, especially of expression:
flow, glide, roll.
phrasal verb
sail in
To start work on vigorously:
attack, go at, tackle, wade in (or into).
Idiom: hop to it.
phrasal verb
sail into
To set upon with violent force:
aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, fall on (or upon), go at, have at, storm, strike.
Informal: light into, pitch into.
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Translations

w>sail in

vi (inf: = enter argument) → sich einschalten
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