Hurried up as he’d arranged to take a friend out (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
made haste
'hurried up' is the definition.
'made haste' can be an answer for 'hurried' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the 'up' bit.
'as he'd arranged to take a friend out' is the wordplay.
'arranged' is an anagram indicator.
'to take a friend' becomes 'mate' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'out' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'as'+'hed'='ashed'
'ashed' with letters rearranged gives 'dehas'.
'dehas' going inside 'mate' is 'MADE HASTE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for made haste that I've seen before include "Hurried" , "progressed rapidly" , "rushed" .)