like crazy

1. Also, like mad; like nobody's business. With exceeding enthusiasm or speed, without restraint. For example, We shopped like crazy and bought all our furniture in one day, or Once he's out of the town limits he drives like mad, or The choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus like nobody's business. The first terms employ crazy and mad in the sense of “lunatic” as a hyperbole for lack of restraint; the third implies that no business could be conducted in such an extraordinary fashion. The first and third date from the 1920s, the second from the mid-1600s.

Example Sentences

He didn’t wear a shoe on his left foot during the second half and afterward told reporters he was “hurting like crazy.”

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"I started dialling numbers on my mobile phone like crazy, but I couldn't get in touch with my wife and children," he said.

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“I just read like crazy all the time,” said King, who has turned her paper chase into something of a cause.

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“This is him in the video firing like crazy,” Abraham tweeted.

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"Even when I was graduating, we were getting paid like crazy. And we were so arrogant that we would not even pick up calls from recruiters," he said.

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