lose no time

English

Verb

lose no time (third-person singular simple present loses no time, present participle losing no time, simple past and past participle lost no time)

To act quickly; do something as soon as possible.
- 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256:
  London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.

References

“lose no time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
“lose no time” in the Collins English Dictionary

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