at this rate

at this rate
at this rate
at this speed; if things continue in the same way. (Usually of a pessimistic view.) •

Hurry up! We'll never get there at this rate.

At this rate, all the food will be gone before we get there.

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or[at that rate] {adv. phr.} At a speed like this or that; with progress like this or that. * /John's father said that if John kept going at that rate he would never finish cutting the grass./ * /So Johnny has a whole dollar! At this rate he'll be a millionaire./ * /"Three 100's in the last four tests! At this rate you'll soon be teaching the subject," Tom said to Mary./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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