to attempt to absorb information in the midst of a rushing onslaught of the same; often used in the context of introducing a new arrival to a project or organization, as in “My first two days leading the analytics team I’ve just been drinking from the fire hydrant”; the phrase usually implies that the drinker is a willing participant in the process, connoting a sense of enthusiasm about the learning task; variant drink from the fire hose
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