express elevator
noun1
A high-speed elevator that only serves a select number of floors
2
Idiomatic Something that gets a person somewhere fast
- Throw in Mr Trump's promise of a "great, great wall along our southern border" - with estimates starting at $12bn - and "massive tax relief for the middle class", and the price tag for his speech proposals is on an express elevator to astronomical.2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News:
- Synonyms
- express lift, express train