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Extremely, vigorously, as in She cried like anything when the dog died. This idiom probably substitutes anything for a swear word. [Colloquial; late 1600s]

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Words nearby like anything

like a chicken with its head cut off, like a drowned rat, like a fish out of water, like a house afire, like a lamb to the slaughter, like anything, like a shot, like as not, like as two peas in a pod, like a ton of bricks, like clockwork
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