Hurry-skurry.

Another ricochet word with which our language abounds. It means a confused haste, or rather, haste without waiting for the due ordering of things; pell-mell.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Huntingdon Sturgeon (A)
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Hurdle Race (A)
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Hurlo-Thrumbo
Hurly-burly
Hurrah
Hurricane
Hurry
Hurry-skurry
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Husband’s Boat (The)
Husband’s Tea
Hush-money
Hushai
Hussars
Hussites
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Husterloe
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