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Hell for leather.
If you do something hell for leather, especially running, you do it as fast as you can.
Dictionary
hell-for-leather
adverb
As fast as possible; recklessly fast
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"It went hell-for-leather.
So bristling, aggressive, hell-for-leather England had been neutered.
THE word "Dickensian" is often bandied about in descriptions of China's hell-for-leather modernisation.
There was no hell-for-leather drama in the first movement, only classical proportioning.
"We just decided to go hell-for-leather for ratings," someone who was involved in the launch told me.
This hell-for-leather bareback horse-race – Italy's most celebrated festival – takes place on 2 July and 16 August.
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They also ran hell for leather.
Goya has gone hell for leather to make these accoutrements look as wonderful as possible.
He goes hell for leather for a romantic, unearned, and entirely improbable ending.
Channel controllers, especially at BBC1, always go hell for leather for ratings.
It is the sound of a band going hell for leather.
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