in a hurry vs lickety-split

in a hurry

prep

  • Rushed, hurried; short of time. 

  • In a hurried manner. 

lickety-split

adv

  • Quickly; as fast as possible; in short order. 

How often have the words in a hurry and lickety-split occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )