A Mile a Minute

Welcome to English in a Minute!

A mile is a unit of measurment equal to about 1.6 kilometers.

And a minute is equal to 60 minutes.

I’ve been thinking about your birthday…

Uh-oh. What have you been thinking, Anna?

A party. A big party.

With 10 kinds of pizzas.

And balloons.

Maybe a clown, and definitely chickens all over.

Slow down, Anna!

Your mind’s going a mile a minute!

How about we start this party idea with something small, like a cake.

The expression ‘a mile a minute’, means that something happens very quickly.

We started using this phrase in the mid-1900s, when 60 miles per hour, or a mile a minute, was considered a very fast speed.

And that’s English in a Minute.