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like mad
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Princeton's WordNet
like hell, like mad, like crazy, like sin, like thunder, like the deviladverb
with great speed or effort or intensity
"drove like crazy"; "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 mad
"Like mad" is an idiomatic phrase typically used in informal English to indicate doing something to a great degree, with intense effort, or excessively. It can also refer to doing something rapidly, fervently, or in a frenzied manner. It's often used to emphasize the intensity or degree of an action.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of like mad in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of like mad in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of like mad in a Sentence
Los Angeles screenwriter Meridith Baer:
It started that I did maybe a $2 million house and then they said, ‘Could you do a $7 million house?’ and I said, ‘Sure.’ And then I had to scramble like mad to find enough furniture, art and decorations to fill it, but I really believe that the growth came from my saying yes and not worrying about how I was going to do it. People want to hear yes. And then they’ll write you a check.
Alzheimer's is like a leaky boat in a hurricane, we have to both bail like mad and fix the leaks. Researchers are working hard to fix the leaks, but it will take time; for now, the main load is carried by the bailing caregivers. They are on the front lines in this war against Alzheimer's.
Think our sisters have begun leaking like mad, scorned and worried and political, they're kicking in to overdrive.
They're scrambling like mad.
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