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单词 hell-for-leather
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hell-for-leather
e. hell-for-leather: (a) adv. at breakneck speed, very fast, originally with reference to riding on horseback; (b) n. attributive very fast; headlong; wild, zealous. Cf. hell-bent for leather at hell-bent adj. and adv. Phrases.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed
full speed1382
with topsailc1400
at spursa1500
on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525
amain1555
a main pace (also speed)1567
full tilt?a1600
upon full stretch1697
at full tilt1713
at (also on) full speed1749
(at) full split1836
full chisel1837
(at) full pelt1841
full swing1843
ventre à terre1848
full out1886
at full lick1889
hell-for-leather1889
all out1895
eyes out1895
flat out1932
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > riding fast
upon the switch and spur1597
tantivy1648
whip and spur1681
hell-for-leather1889
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words 15 Hellfalleero, they be aal quarlun and fightun hellfalleero.]
1889 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys 73 Here, Gaddy, take the note to Bingle and ride hell-for-leather.
1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 47 I perceived a gunner-orf'cer in full rig'mentals perusin' down the road, hell-for-leather, wid his mouth open.
1927 Sunday Express 10 July 4 A long line of stage coaches starting on a hell-for-leather race.
1963 Times 21 Feb. 3/2 Australia's plan was to make 90 during the afternoon, if they could, without losing too many wickets and to go hell for leather afterwards.
1971 K. Tynan Diary 3 May (2001) 46 That's the way it was along the West 50s in that never-to-be-forgotten, hell-for-leather heyday of gutbucket and jive.
2000 R. A. Carter Buffalo Bill Cody p. xii The days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians.
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