争分夺秒

Traditional (Taiwan): 爭分奪秒

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2.

zhēngfēnduómiǎo ㄓㄥㄈㄣㄉㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄠˇ

- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom) a race against time
- making every second count

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