What's the origin of the phrase 'Make haste'?. This is an old phrase and is first found in the works of Martin Luther. Miles Coverdale's translation of A very ...

28 сент. 2017 г. · late 13c., from Old French haster "hurry, make haste; urge, hurry along" (Modern French hâter), from haste "haste, urgency" (see haste). Now ...

make haste idiom old-fashioned : to move, act, or go quickly : hurry Examples of make haste in a Sentence

5 дней назад · MAKE HASTE definition: 1. hurry up: 2. hurry up: . Learn more.

Verb · c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] · c. 1599– ...

“Haste maketh waste” is found in the 1542 translation of Apophthegmes by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The translator, Nicholas Udall, remarked on the phrase as being a ...

Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”). English · Basque · German · Middle French

The earliest known use of the noun haste is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for haste is from around 1300, in King Horn.

If someone is told to make haste, they are told to do something quickly and not waste time. [old-fashioned]. As Simon was under orders to make haste, ...