like anything

Extremely, vigorously, as in She cried like anything when the dog died. This idiom probably substitutes anything for a swear word. [Colloquial; late 1600s]

like anything

To an exceeding degree: We worked like anything to meet the deadline.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cille	-	Danish
Prabhat	-	Indian, Hindi
Frieda	FREE-dah (German), FREE-də (English)	German, English
Moran	['mɔ:rən]
Pernille	per-NEEL-le	Danish, Norwegian
Edwin	['edwin]