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Like hell   /laɪk hɛl/   Listen
Like hell

adverb
1.
With great speed or effort or intensity.  Synonyms: like crazy, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder.  "Worked like hell to get the job done" , "Ran like sin for the storm cellar" , "Work like thunder" , "Fought like the devil"
2.
Used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated.





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... stretch out your hand, because you've damn well got to. If he won't take it, or wipes you over the head, that's his look-out. You can't work miracles. But once in a way he does take it, and then—well, you work like hell to pull him through. And if you do, what bigger thing is there in the world than the salvation of ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke


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