| 单词 | hell-bent for leather |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-bent for leather (also election, breakfast) North American colloquial. hell-bent for leather (also election, breakfast): at breakneck speed; rapidly; recklessly; (also occasionally) fast; reckless; zealous, determined. Cf. hell-for-leather at hell n. and int. Phrases 6e, hell for breakfast at hell n. and int. Phrases 6g. ΚΠ 1899 S. Crane Twelve O'Clock in Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 462 One puncher racin' his cow-pony hell-bent-fer-election down Main Street. 1926 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 12 May 6/4 Bold, reckless dare devils driving hell bent for leather. 1931 J. F. Dobie Coronado's Children iii. 104 I was going lickety-split, hell-bent for breakfast, trying to head off a gotch-eared brown stallion. 1967 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 12 July 10/1 Thoroughbred race horses running hell-bent for election. 2001 Standard (St. Catharines, Ont.) (Nexis) 20 Apr. a3 The government is ‘hell bent for election’ on its plan to privatize the electricity market. 2002 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 17 Apr. a2/6 The prosecutor said he doesn't know of any alleged victims from his country. If one comes forward, he said, ‘I would be hell bent for leather’ to prosecute. 2003 News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) (Nexis) 24 Mar. e3 U.S. tanks..racing hell-bent for breakfast across the featureless Iraqi desert. < as lemmas |
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