пулей вылетать

• ПУЛЕЙ <СТРЕЛОЙ> ВЫ ЛЕТАТЬ/ВЫЛЕТЕТЬ откуда coll

[VP; subj: human; usu. pfv]

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⇒ to run or walk out of some place very quickly, headlong:

- X пулей вылетел из места Y - X shot out of place Y;

- X dashed (flew etc) out of place Y like a shot.

     ♦ На доклад секретарши Сурков пулей вылетел из кабинета. Он кинулся ко мне и спросил, кем я прихожусь Мандельштаму (Мандельштам 2). As soon as his secretary told him [Surkov] I was there, he shot out of his office, raced up to me and asked how I was related to M[andelstam](2a).