like the clappers

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发音

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释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    Very hard or very rapidly.

    英国 非正式

    After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.

词源

Partridge says: "Possibly rhyming slang for 'clappers of a bell', 'hell'."

来源:wiktionary