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.
See also: devil, like

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Danika-English (Modern)
Efemena-Western African, Urhobo
Teodorte-AW-dawr (Polish), TE-o-dor (Croatian)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian,
HalİDe-Turkish
Jeffrey['dʒefri:]
MÁGhnus-Irish