It came from a ship that was named "Rush" that was sent to Alaska every year to help stop the over harvesting of seals. So the hunters of the seals would try to get to the hunting grounds before the Rush arrived. Thus the saying "Get there before the Rush."
The predecessor to the United States Coast Guard was the Revenue Cutter Service. It was established in 1790 by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Its primary mission was to crack down on piracy and, while at sea doing that, to help vessels in distress. After the U. S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, the U. S. placed a tariff on harvested seals in order to help pay the $7 million cost of acquiring "Seward's Folly." Gold had not yet been discovered in Alaska, so the tax on the seal harvest was the greatest money maker at the time. Two Revenue Cutter Service ships bore the name of Treasury Secretary Richard Rush (1825 - 1829). The first one was tasked with catching seal poachers. With the Rush on the lookout, poachers would often exclaim, "Let's get there before the Rush!"
There was an Icecutter named the "Rush" used to keep tabs on illegal seal hunting back in the day. Members of these seal hunters would say "We need to get there before the Rush" The ship was the US Revenue Cutter (USRC) Richard Rush, thereby "We need to get there before the Rush," is quite correct.
FREE GOLD! you find it, you keep it or FREE GOLD! hurry, the rush is on
I had to hurry to catch the bus before it left the stop.
The GOLD rush started in 1849.
You need to push up only after "Get Set" and right before "go!" You cannot accelerate before that or it won't work.
To rush forward. Every oneward and such....
The Californian gold rush!
The California Gold Rush of between 1848 - 1849 was 12 years before the start of the US Civil War.
A Gold rush can start by some one finding large quantities of gold in an area and someone else hears and before you know it almost everyone knows and wants to go there for money.
The rush hour in Tehran is very Terrible.
The gold rush!
cariboo gold rush in b.c.,canada - 1857 but the actual gold rush didn't start until 1861