at no rate en · ADP
Meanings
- (dialectal) Not at all; by no means.
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(Ireland, dialectal) At a great rate; at high speed.
“Well, away they wint tattherin’ along the road, makin’ the fire fly out o’ the stones at no rate.”
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 520: