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go like the clappers in British English or run like the clappers British informal to move extremely fast See full dictionary entry for clapperExamples of 'go like the clappers' in a sentencego like the clappers But you can't blame a young conductor on such a big date for wanting to go like the clappers.And it's fast - it goes like the clappers.It is red, sleek, low to the ground and goes like the clappers.Your heart goes like the clappers, which might make you feel dizzy or breathless, too.That adrenalin rush may keep your heart going like the clappers but it won't go so fast that it makes you ill.So she's in packing-up-thehouse mode as well, going like the clappers, trying to get a million and one things done.There is also a difference between reading silently, which is moderately stimulating, and reading out loud, which sets the prefrontal cortex going like the clappers.It was going like the clappers: that was also pretty unusual, for a barn owl hunts by silence and stealth, slow-moving along the hedgelines. |