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Like hell   /laɪk hɛl/   Listen
Like hell

adverb
1.
With great speed or effort or intensity.  Synonyms: like crazy, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder.  "Worked like hell to get the job done" , "Ran like sin for the storm cellar" , "Work like thunder" , "Fought like the devil"
2.
Used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated.





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"Like hell" Quotes from Famous Books



... not give you up. My life without you is intolerable," he groaned. "God knows how I have struggled against this. You know how faithfully I have kept a guard over my words and acts. But now my longing overmasters me. My future is like hell without you. Oh, love! oh, Ella! listen to me! Can you give me up? Will you be willing to do wrong for my sake? ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... No! Just a plain friend. I told him I did not want to hear a thing while I was shut away. I knew it would hold me back from getting what I could out of the experience. It's like hell to have the outside troubles and joys brought to you while you are bound hand and foot. I saw enough of that—it did more to keep men in the mud than anything else. I just kept that space of my life clear for expiation. When the gates ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... cried the sergeant. "They're signaling from the knoll. They never would have attacked with so few, unless there were dozens more within sight. Now's our time, lieutenant. We can mount and ride like hell to the timber—I beg your pardon, sir," he broke off suddenly. "I didn't mean to say what the ...
— Warrior Gap - A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. • Charles King
... see the coast, when in their little boats They go a six days' voyage and are back Home with their wives for every Sabbath day. Much did he talk of tankards of old beer, And bottled stuff he drank in other lands, Which was a liquid fire like Hell to gulp, But Paradise ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various


Words linked to "Like hell" :   colloquialism, like mad


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