like crazy

Idioms  

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.

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Example Sentences

Benn McGrady, head of the WHO's public health law and policies unit, said the tobacco industry was "lobbying like crazy" and "trying to sow division".

From Barron's

“I’m never going to miss it. I’ll be at every one no matter what, even though they continue to raise the prices like crazy. That’s money I’m going to spend for those two days.”

From Los Angeles Times

If history often rhymes, as the familiar slogan holds, this time it rhymes like crazy.

From Salon

More recent has been the number of bars and pubs built around "competitive socialising", where dates or groups split time between the bar and games like crazy golf, shuffleboard or axe-throwing.

From BBC

If we have that same dynamic we have with CPUs, with GPUs, it means that all of us are accelerating like crazy to deliver more innovation with lower costs.

From Barron's

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