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Like crazy   /laɪk krˈeɪzi/   Listen
Like crazy

adverb
1.
With great speed or effort or intensity.  Synonyms: like hell, 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"






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"Like crazy" Quotes from Famous Books



... growled old Winsor. "He's no charger like Crazy Horse. He's a Sitting Bull breed of general—like some we had in Virginia," he added, between his set teeth, but Ray heard and grinned in silent appreciation. "Set your sights and give 'em their first volley as they reach that scorched line," he called ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

... night. Once she came bursting into our cabin, hysterical with fright. A bunch of coyotes had been racing around and around her tent trying to get into the garbage can. They yelped and barked, and, finally, as she sobbed and tried to explain, "They sat down in my door and laughed like crazy people." She finished the night on our spare cot, for anybody that thinks coyotes can't act like demons had better spend a night in Arizona and listen ...
— I Married a Ranger • Dama Margaret Smith

... are to be the soldiers or the peasants, but who, meanwhile perform incomprehensible manoeuvres. Still the dream. One has to be a madman to put on these things. And the frenzy of the actors, pale and worn out, who drag themselves to their place yawning, and suddenly start like crazy people to declaim their tirade; continually the assembling of ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... steers from Senor Rodriguez, but said that he was a robber and threatened to cut his ears off. Cannot a man name his own price? These cow-punchers liked to get drunk and gallop through San Felippe, shooting like crazy men. They got drunk one Friday night and went shouting and singing to the Big Bend in the canyon to see the flying ghost, and they called it names and fired off their pistols and sang loudly; and for a week they insulted all the Mexicans in town by calling them liars and cowards. Was it the fault ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford

... said Patty, looking at her gay-coloured beads. "I don't care if I do like crazy things. Ethel likes these ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells



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