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like a bat out of hell

like a bat out of hell prepositional phrase: with crazy or excessive intensity or speed.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (simile) With crazy or excessive intensity or speed.
    • He came tearing around the corner like a bat out of hell and nearly ran us over.
    • Appellee testified that "the train came through like a bat out of hell," and while this language is probably highly figurative, it nevertheless might tend to indicate that the train was running at a very high speed.1904, The Texas Civil Appeals Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas, volume 32, page 594

like a bat out of hell meaning in Vietnamese

like a bat out of hell in Vietnamese

Translations
hộc tốc

Synonyms of like a bat out of hell

Questions about like a bat out of hell

What does like a bat out of hell mean?
Like a bat out of hell means with crazy or excessive intensity or speed.
What is like a bat out of hell in Vietnamese?
Like a bat out of hell in Vietnamese is hộc tốc. See Like a bat out of hell meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is like a bat out of hell?
Like a bat out of hell is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like a bat out of hell in the dictionary

  1. likams
  2. Likasi
  3. likasite
  4. like
  5. like a bag of ferrets
  6. like a bat out of hell
  7. like a bear with a sore head
  8. like a bee in clover
  9. like a big dog
  10. like a bitch
  11. like a bitch on heat

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