be quick / slow / first etc off the mark

be quick / slow / first etc off the mark informalto be quick, slow, first etc to understand things or react to situations反应快/反应慢/是第一个作反应等:•You'll have to be quick off the mark if you want to find a job around here.如果你想在这儿找到工作，就得动作快。

• northerlies
• revealers
• gamogenetically
• Najin
• washing-up
• not the only pebble on the beach
• patrolette
• Monte Carlo Methods
• inexhaustible
• Excuse me
• work wonders
• hypergol
• headships
• Genesiac
• I'll be darned!
• learned behavior
• widow-maker
• pacification
• heezing
• spacemark
• erythropsia
• bedding thrust
• trijet
• subaltern
• bronzer
• in saecula saeculorum
• Nessler tubes
• gynaecologies
• Junggrammatiker
• hydraulic profile
• Yamato
• rolling stock
• have a finger in the/every pie
• shot metal
• approval copy
• ATCC
• paha
• a back pay
• bumped up
• boas
• narrow down
• trierarchies
• sheeney
• microscopes
• local training
• combat patrol
• Fanonesque
• thermodynamic principles
• circular antenna
• hell bomb
• ribut
• PVDC
• power cut-off
• by reason that
• despicablenesses
• selenous
• chemical horn
• dent-
• in bed
• velarized
• pro-
• toy poodle
• assonant
• phyllotactical
• ram sth↔home
• meet'em and street'em
• give someone the benefit of one's advice
• Seric
• 2-octene
• Farmer, Fannie Merritt
• crook the elbow
• brake-vans
• parliamenting
• convalescence
• lipid metabolism
• pride goes （或comes） before a fall
• binary-coded decimal notation
• sperma-
• fricandeau
• haemagglutinating
• chromatin
• patrilineal
• RPh
• not a sou
• Wagner, Robert Ferdinand
• available energy
• be left in the basket
• structuralisms
• an unfilled order
• space fiction
• range coding
• coprophagist
• captain of industry
• re-laying
• infer
• squadder
• blepharoptosis
• vaginotomy
• umpy
• fly-by-nighter