Hell-for-leather

Quick meaning: Hell-for-leather is an adverb meaning As fast as possible; recklessly fast.

Meaning

As fast as possible; recklessly fast.

Example Sentences

He rode hell-for-leather to catch up with the stagecoach.

Captain Mafflin: Leave him alone. It's not bad enough to croak over. Here, Gaddy, take the chit to Bingle and ride hell-for-leather. It'll do you good. I can't go.

You see, the temptation is to stick at one. The temptation is to assume that the others will go hell-for-leather trying to accumulate as many pink ladies as possible and eventually have the green egg.

Some of the commissioning decisions that they have taken look like they have not paid sufficient regard to the development of services in the community. This hell-for-leather search for abstinence - they thought that they could eradicate the drug problem within prisons by running a few programmes and detox units ... the first tranche of service development was very much based around that.

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