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
Boyce	BOIS	English
Sara	SAH-rah (Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Polish), ZAH-rah (German), SER-ə (English), SAR-ə (English), SAH:-rah (Arabic)	Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, German
Ondina	-	Portuguese, Italian
Fulvio	FOOL-vyo	Italian
Iuliu	-	Romanian
Iseult	i-SOOLT (English), i-ZOOLT (English), EE-səlt (English)	Arthurian Romance