at this rate meaning

[American idiom]
at this speed.
• Hurry up! We'll never get there at this rate.
• At this rate, all the food will be gone before we get there.

[American slang]
at this speed; if things continue in the same way. (Usually of a pessimistic view.)
  Hurry up! We'll never get there at this rate.
  At this rate, all the food will be gone before we get there.

• at that rate:    [American idiom]in ...
• rate:    Noun: rate &n ...
• abortion rate:    [Medicine]Intentio ...

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1. the sun has been emitting energy at this rate for billions of years.
2. mr. swiveller was so much confounded by the single gentleman riding rough-shod over him at this rate.
3. at this rate we won't be able to buy a house
4. we ll never get ashore at this rate, said i
5. yeah, well, at this rate, we both might miss it