like nobody's business
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The percussion pounds like nobody’s business, opening the score up to all the implied emotion and glitter on an over-stuffed stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
"We're all bio-hacking like nobody's business," reports London-based Mousavi.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
It's also excellent stirred into a simple tomato sauce, and will stretch and enhance a pesto like nobody's business.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022
We have debts like nobody’s business, and they’re going to insist that there’s no money to do anything.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2020
By now the band was blasting like nobody’s business, and the usual confusing things happened.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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