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on the trot

UK informal

Definition

If you do things on the trot, you do them directly after each other without pausing: They won three games on the trot. She worked 30 hours on the trot to get the job finished on time.Continuous and permanent
(Definition of on the trot from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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