go at a good clip

English

Verb

go at a good clip (third-person singular simple present goes at a good clip, present participle going at a good clip, simple past went at a good clip, past participle gone at a good clip)

1. (idiomatic) To go fast
   • 1993, Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo:

     The driver told me that at five o'clock there was a direct bus for Lyon on the main road, three kilometers from there. So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road.

   • 2015, Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris, The Rogues:

     Without Da's slowing the pace, I was able to go at a good clip, stopping only to catch my breath every hour or so