like the devil

*like the devil

and *like the dickens; *like hell

Fig. with a fury; in a great hurry; with a lot of activity. (*Typically: fight ~; run ~; scream ~; thrash around~.) We were working like the dickens when the rain started and made us quit for the day.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aisling	ASH-ling	Irish
Davie	DAY-vee (English)	English, Scottish
ÅGot	-	Norwegian
Stevenson	['sti:vnsn]
Jehoshaphat	ji-HAHSH-ə-fat (English), jee-HAHSH-ə-fat (English)	Biblical
AndrÉ	awn-DRE (French), an-DRE (Portuguese)	French, Portuguese