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hell-for-leather
[ hel-fer-leth-er ]
adjective
- characterized by reckless determination or breakneck speed:
The sheriff led the posse in a hell-for-leather chase.
adverb
- in a hell-for-leather manner; hellbent:
motorcycles roaring hell-for-leather down the turnpike.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hell-for-leather1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
The sepoys usually swarm out hell-for-leather and we rush to meet them.
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When Peggy's father died, Colling was going it hell-for-leather—just about as fast as they're made.
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And there she was, galloping into that field, hell-for-leather, unwrapping her long-tailed whip as she came.
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Rode hell-for-leather down here to haid off that coyote there—and done it, too.
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Another Maronite resented that, and killed a Druse; and they were all at it, hell-for-leather.
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