Like-the-clappers Definition

adverb

(simile, colloquial) Very hard or very rapidly.

After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.
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Origin of Like-the-clappers

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

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