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like a bat out of hell



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Idioms and Phrases

Moving extremely fast, as in She ran down the street like a bat out of hell . This expression presumably alludes to the rapid darting movement of bats and, Charles Earle Funk theorized, their avoidance of such light as might be cast by the fires of hell. [c. 1900] For a synonym, see like greased lightning .
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My wife shot out of the corner like a bat out of hell and leapt from her truck.

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And then when we put him on the lead — sometimes it’s a struggle to get them to move — he took to it like a bat out of hell.â€

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“I jumped in my car and drove like a bat out of hell … jumped in a helicopter and we were flying that day,†Johnson said, recalling risky flights over lava flows.

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“I drove like a bat out of hell,†he said.

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“He ran like a bat out of hell,†The Boston Globe reported at the time.

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