Is it used in this sentence? “I’ll dash into this book”
If I really want to foresee this book(sic) and write it(me) quickly, what am I going to read it?
Is it correct to use this expression?
I’m adding many other uses that I think are common or not: “I’ll dash
into my homework” “He dash
into his tasklist” “She is
dashing into her schedule”
I’d say it’s much more common to say “He jumped right into his homework,” or “I’ll jump right on that,” but not “He dashed into his homework.” I’m not saying people wouldn’t understand you, but just from my experience, I have rarely heard “Dashed into…” before.
Is it quite a statement, or a statement, or a phrase? Getting dash for short distance usually means running in the sense you’re using, and specifically running a relatively short distance. Is it possible to take away some of the success of 200m dash or 100m dash in Olympics? (Though other meanings exist also for “dash”; e.g. What is a small amount of something in a
recipe.) So you might dash in a store, for example, if you were literally going to run in very quickly from across the parking lot. But even in that case, “dash” would be a bit uncommon. Should “run in” be more typical?
If the phrase you’re looking for is dive in? From Merriam-Webster: to
plunge into our subject example sentence (from
MC).
I have seen a few examples where it is used to imply reckless actions with other intangibles: “Dash
into cash/stocks/bonds” appears as headlines talking about investment.
What has the queen considered from “The US Government’s headlong dash into Brexit”, “Australia’s dash into military war in 1914 was no knee-jerk response”, “she thinks if I’m really in love I’d dash into marriage like a mad thing” describe changes of state rather than physical places.
As “dash into” is so much more commonly used with real things or locations, that “I dashed into my homework” would only be used literally. “I dashed into my homework, knocking my books to the floor”.
