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like merry hell

like merry hell prepositional phrase: with great vigour.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (colloquial) With great vigour.
    • But basically the classical musicians kept their eyes glued to their parts and played like merry hell, and the drummer kept his eyes glued on the conductor drummed like merry hell whenever he was cued—but there was no emotional unity […]2003, Maxwell Steer, Music and Mysticism: Parts 3 and 4, page 11
    • They saw us and ran for it like merry hell, trying to get there and plunder it before we could raise the alarm.2015, Jonathan Peace, The Bloodstone Of Cerillion, page 51

Questions about like merry hell

What does like merry hell mean?
Like merry hell means with great vigour.
What part of speech is like merry hell?
Like merry hell is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like merry hell in the dictionary

  1. like liked
  2. like likes
  3. like liking
  4. like mad
  5. like magic
  6. like merry hell
  7. like molasses
  8. like molasses in January
  9. like mother, like daughter
  10. like mushrooms
  11. like new

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