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like hell
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial like hell has 2 senses
- like hell(r = adv.all) like crazy, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder - with great speed or effort or intensity; "drove like crazy"; "worked like hell to get the job done"; "ran like sin for the storm cellar"; "work like thunder"; "fought like the devil"
- like hell(r = adv.all) Array - used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated; "says he'll help me? Like hell he will!"
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