crash course

American  

noun

1. a brief, intensive course of instruction, as to prepare one quickly for a test.

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crash course Idioms  

1. A short, intensive training course, as in Daisy planned to take a crash course in cooking before she got married. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

Amit Segal’s smart and often hilarious crash course in Israeli political history.

From The Wall Street Journal

For tourists, she added, a wedding is the best crash course on the core elements of a culture: “The music, the food, the outfits, the clothes, what people believe about love.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Every mission was a crash course in some other investing strategy,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s literally been a crash course in how to run a nonprofit,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, the case gives him purpose, and once his path converges with Robbie’s, he recognizes him as a fellow blind driver on a crash course, grasping for direction.

From Salon