like anything

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

Example Sentences

I like anything effervescent and not too sweet, ideally ladled from a punch bowl because punch bowls inherently make adults feel like children in the best possible way.

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“I think like anything in sports, it’s adversity,” Harbaugh said.

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"I just don't like anything which creates a kind of lords and peasants sort of thing," he told an audience in New York in 2023.

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Like anything with the Fed, the answer is a little complex, but can best be explained by breaking it into pieces.

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Caught in a tide of conflicting information, “it doesn’t feel like anything is real,” she said.

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