like the devil

Meaning

1. Oxford67% of films

   very hard, fast, etc.

   Take my horse and ride like the Devil for Doctor Broughton.

   So I shook you and the moment you opened your eyes, you hopped out of bed and started running like the devil.

In the movies · 3

• Take my horse and ride like the Devil for Doctor Broughton.Barry Lyndon1975
• But I'll tell you something though — I'd hate like the devil to be without my tin hat.Paths of Glory1957
• So I shook you and the moment you opened your eyes, you hopped out of bed and started running like the devil.Meet John Doe1941
• like the devil himself!Treasure Planet2002
• But it did hurt like the devil.Zootopia2016
• You just run those bases like the devil himself.422013
• Eyes like the devil, he's got, and a soul as dark as his name.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2004
• And at times like these, the Devil was never far away.The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus2009

Learn it in full scenes

• Paths of Glory1957
  • Broulard Pitches the Anthill Offensive
  • Broulard Visits Dax at the Front
  • Mireau Orders Dax to Take the Anthill

From the same entry

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• better the devil you know
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• the devil
• the devil looks after his own
• the devil makes work for idle hands
• a devil of a job
• go to the devil
• speak of the devil
• what, where, who, why, the devil
• the devil to pay
• sell your soul