like hell

[like hell] {adv.}, {slang}, {vulgar}, {avoidable}

1. With great vigor.

* /As soon as they saw the cops, they ran like hell./

2. {interj.}

Not so; untrue; indicates the speaker's lack of belief in what he heard.

* /Like hell you're gonna bring me my dough!/

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	{adv.} ¹⁵⁰ {avoidable} ²⁸ {interj.} ⁴¹ {slang} ⁵⁹³ {vulgar} ²⁶

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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