hell-for-leather

短语

adv. 拼命地 a. 拼命的

别名

hell for leather

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    As fast as possible; recklessly fast.

    He rode hell-for-leather to catch up with the stagecoach.

词源

An early reference is from 1888 in "The Gadsbys" by Rudyard Kipling, referring to the effect on the leather of a saddle (or perhaps a crop) of riding a horse as fast as possible.

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