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Like sin

adverb

With great speed or effort or intensity. Synonyms: like crazy, like hell, like mad, like the devil, like thunder. "Worked like hell to get the job done" , "Ran like sin for the storm cellar" , "Work like thunder" , "Fought like the devil"

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"Like sin" Quotes from Famous Books

... unyielding domestic, "and—still with reverence—it is even sae much the waur. If you played with your equals, there might be like sin, but there wad be mair warldly honour in it. Your lordship kens, or may ken, by experience of your ain, whilk is not as yet mony weeks auld, that small sums can ill be missed by those that have nane larger; and I maun e'en be plain with you, that men notice ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

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