like a house afire
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I tend to put spaces between my “ha”s, but, if I’m laughing and typing like a house afire, I leave them out.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2015
They had got along together like a house afire, had sat up together, alone, talking away into the small hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
Socially, young Tallulah went like a house afire, but her stage career languished in flop after flop.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Pumpkin Eater in outline resembles a compendium of womanly woes, it plays like a house afire, almost invariably ignited by Actress Bancroft, who could probably strike dramatic lightning from a recitation of tide tables.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I bet your daddy’s up there with Pa and them,” she whispered from behind the palm-frond fan she was fluttering like a house afire.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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