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Like sin

adverb

With great speed or effort or intensity. Synonyms: like crazy, like hell, like mad, 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 sin" Quotes from Famous Books

... fortunes at her feet. Smiling on him—ETTARRE was her name— "Brave knight," she said, "your love I cannot blame. Your hands are strong. I see you have no brains, You're just the man for tournaments. Your pains, In case for me a battle you shall win, Shall be rewarded," and she smiled like sin. ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 • Various

... their ears and are about as big as a fair-sized dog. But they never come near a camp; they are so shy that you never can get sight of one, though the lumbermen tell stories of having fights with them. They've got long claws and could scratch like sin, if they ...

— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens

... the tables get mixed, The ones and the twos begins to play tricks. The pluses and minuses is just little smears, When the cry babies cry their slates full of tears, And the figgers won't add,—but just act up like sin, When the teacher gets cross, ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various

Words linked to "Like sin" : like the devil, colloquialism