fast on
adj.— «If I know I’ve got to be up early, I normally can’t sleep too well, but that night I was, as they say round they these parts, “fast on.” I was “fast on” and having a dream.» —“Alarming tale that gave me a wake-up call” by Ian McMillan Yorkshire Post (Leeds, United Kingdom) Jan. 29, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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