Phrase guide
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adv
determinedly recklessly, in a manner that lacks restraint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: Behaving
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Synonym of hell-for-leather (“very fast”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: hell-for-leather
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Synonym of hell-bent (“(recklessly) determined”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: hell-bent
Antonyms: none provided
History
Apparently a blend of hell-bent + hell-for-leather, though sometimes said to have been initially applied to animals which behaved poorly as if they were bent on being turned into leather.
