like the clappers
prep_phraseEtymology
Partridge says: "Possibly rhyming slang for 'clappers of a bell', 'hell'."
Definitions
Very hard or very rapidly.
- After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.
- We've gone through regional and rural Australia like the clappers, and everywhere we went, irate voters shouted at us and we stuck our heads out the windows and shouted: "What?" and the electorate respected us for it.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA