quicker than scat

English

Adverb

quicker than scat (not comparable)

1. (simile, US) very quickly, in a great hurry.
   • 1865, Charles Carleton Coffin, Winning His Way‎^[1], page 7:

     Pop! went his gun, and the fire ran down the hill quicker than scat!

   • 1912 July, M. R. Umberhind, “Henry Holman's Pilgrimage”, in National Magazine, page 422:

     I guess he didn't think we'd seen him 'cause, quicker than scat, he jumped 'hind er big oak tree an' in er minute or two he came out and started trudgin' 'long towards whar we wus standin'; but he had left ther fish 'hind ther tree.

   • 2020, Christianne Van Keuren, Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Battle for Elvenfeld‎^[2], page 24:

     But that same bully was quicker than scat to rat her out when she retaliated and gave him a severe pounding when she was bigger.