Americans; I am trying to understand the subtlety and nuance of your expression “to haul ass”.

Does it mean “to hurry”? Or more “to move under strain”?

Or something else?

  • shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml
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    5か月前

    To me it means to move quickly. Often it means to move quickly under strain, but not necessarily.

    (Moving slowly under strain is not hauling ass.)

    The best example I can think of would be the insane running animations of Peppino from Pizza Tower:

    And this scene from Rat Race (2001) is maybe less helpful but still relevant: https://youtu.be/PzjLImF8Zbc?t=1m5s