like the devil

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like the devil - with great speed or effort or intensity; "drove like crazy"; "worked like hell to get the job done"; "ran like sin for the storm cellar"; "work like thunder"; "fought like the devil"

like crazy, like hell, like mad, like sin, like thunder

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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