crash course

noun

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

Idioms and Phrases

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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The region also birthed the career of one Jack Harbaugh, storyteller supreme, whose initial foray into coaching was more of a crash course.

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Those in Los Angeles will have multiple opportunities to take part in a VTuber crash course over the Fourth of July holiday.

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The partnership was a crash course for them both: an informal academy with a class roster of two.

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