in a hurry vs pell-mell

in a hurry

prep

  • Rushed, hurried; short of time. 

  • In a hurried manner. 

pell-mell

adv

  • In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly. 

adj

  • Hasty and uncontrolled. 

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