as soon as
∞
1.0
- idiom
:
en cuanto
- I will join you as soon as I can.
- as soon as possible
- as soon as we begin
- as soon as it starts
LBJ and FDR all wrapped into one as soon as she assumes office.
- LBJ and FDR all wrapped into one as soon as she assumes office.
- The bull thesis falls apart as soon as inflation shoots back up.
- And I remember telling him as soon as he actually won his round.
- So as soon as I can, I will.
- So what you know, everyone, as soon as you're born, you start aging.
- So yeah, grab those as soon as you can if you see the display.
- So we're going to do that as soon as I am ready.
- And he was doing the thing where as soon as he saw me, he played dead.
- He is aware of how naive he sounds as soon as he sounds that way.
- They didn't trust us to file as soon as we we could again.
Examples
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My office will investigate all of you as soon as this crisis is over.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'll be there as soon as I can.
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Everything will be OK as soon as I get my neck fixed.
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I will send you my report as soon as possible.
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Can you call me as soon as you get this?
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I'll be back as soon as I can.
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Luke had insisted on starting out this morning as soon as there was light enough to see.
Fiction book (1990) -
And they were all loaded into trucks almost as soon as they arrived at the airport.
Fiction book (1990) -
After three years of construction, the project failed as soon as it was inaugurated.
Academic text (2008) -
I will send you my report as soon as I finish it.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Right after one thing happens
Antonyms
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Morphology
as + soon + as
The meaning 'immediately after the moment that' is directly derivable from combining 'soon' (after a short time) with the subordinating pattern 'as ... as' that signals a temporal relation; together they transparently convey 'at the moment/time that'. This construction has clear parallels in many languages (e.g. Spanish 'tan pronto como', French 'dès que'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
As soon as may come from old speech where as meant 'at the same time' and soon meant 'quickly', so picture two actions almost touching and the second one starting right away. That's why as soon as means 'immediately after' or 'the very moment when'.