be quick on the uptake

For a bunny, he was quick on the uptake.

If White has found it difficult to be quick on the uptake, he has experienced no other problems with his speed.

Andi was quick on the uptake, the way all barmen become.

There were times when Weston was quick on the uptake and this was one of them.

"Told you she was quick on the uptake," Lacy gloated.

"He means they'll be full of pictures for them as can't read," explained his neighbor, who was quicker on the uptake.

She nodded meaningfully at a flunkey who, being quick on the uptake, leapt to attention.

Ereshguna, fortunately, was quicker on the uptake than his younger son.

Mrs Skiller was quicker on the uptake than her husband.

Holly wished she was quicker on the uptake, that her mind was more facile.

He was quick on the uptake; that was what he was paid for.

William of Etton was quick on the uptake.

He was quicker on the uptake than his 'comrade in arms' and his wife told him more of the current gossip.

Estrella was quicker on the uptake.

And although children tend to be quicker on the uptake than their teachers where anything with a screen is involved, this cannot be taken for granted.

The Telenews ace, although brash and not at all thin-skinned, was quick on the uptake.

We exciting L.A. detectives are quick on the uptake.

We're not chicken [expletive]" They were quick on the uptake, ya see.

But Virgil Samms was quick on the uptake.

I froze for a moment, leaning half-over the bar-but I've always rather prided myself in being quick on the uptake. "

"I think I know," Stimer said, being quicker on the uptake than Mort.

I'd always prided myself on being quick on the uptake . . . but I decided to give myself a pass, this time.

"And in the South Seas garnered a better vocabulary from the lexicon of Love," Percival was quick on the uptake.

She was quick on the uptake and daring, which Sofiya Aleksandrovna was not, particularly there, in the queues.

As he had hoped they would be, as he had thought they would be, the Giblut were quicker on the uptake.