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English adverb: like hell

1. like hell with great speed or effort or intensity


SamplesDrove like crazy.
Worked like hell to get the job done.
Ran like sin for the storm cellar.
Work like thunder.
Fought like the devil.


Synonymslike crazy, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder


Domain usagecolloquialism

2. like hell used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated


SamplesSays he'll help me? Like hell he will!.









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