| 单词 | hell-for-leather |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-for-leather e. hell-for-leather: (a) adv. at breakneck speed, very fast, originally with reference to riding on horseback; (b) n. attributive very fast; headlong; wild, zealous. Cf. hell-bent for leather at hell-bent adj. and adv. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed full speed1382 with topsailc1400 at spursa1500 on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525 amain1555 a main pace (also speed)1567 full tilt?a1600 upon full stretch1697 at full tilt1713 at (also on) full speed1749 (at) full split1836 full chisel1837 (at) full pelt1841 full swing1843 ventre à terre1848 full out1886 at full lick1889 hell-for-leather1889 all out1895 eyes out1895 flat out1932 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > riding fast upon the switch and spur1597 tantivy1648 whip and spur1681 hell-for-leather1889 1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words 15 Hellfalleero, they be aal quarlun and fightun hellfalleero.] 1889 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys 73 Here, Gaddy, take the note to Bingle and ride hell-for-leather. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 47 I perceived a gunner-orf'cer in full rig'mentals perusin' down the road, hell-for-leather, wid his mouth open. 1927 Sunday Express 10 July 4 A long line of stage coaches starting on a hell-for-leather race. 1963 Times 21 Feb. 3/2 Australia's plan was to make 90 during the afternoon, if they could, without losing too many wickets and to go hell for leather afterwards. 1971 K. Tynan Diary 3 May (2001) 46 That's the way it was along the West 50s in that never-to-be-forgotten, hell-for-leather heyday of gutbucket and jive. 2000 R. A. Carter Buffalo Bill Cody p. xii The days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians. < as lemmas |
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