like the clappers

(British informal)

very quickly He works like the clappers - he'll have it finished in no time! They ran like the clappers when the policeman came round the corner.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Adamu	-	Old Church Slavic
Femi	-	Western African, Yoruba
Marjaana	MAHR-yah:-nah	Finnish
Rowe	[rəu]
Netanyahu	-	Biblical Hebrew
AmÍLcar	-	Portuguese, Spanish