| 词汇 | like a bat out of hell |
| 释义 | Idiom like a bat out of hell Theme: SPEED with great speed and force. (Use hell with caution.)Did you see her leave? She left like a bat out of hell.The car sped down the street like a bat out of hell. Slang like a bat out of hell Theme: SPEED mod. very fast or sudden. (Use caution with hell.)The cat took off like a bat out of hell.The car pulled away from the curb like a bat out of hell. Idiom like a bat out of hell if you go somewhere like a bat out of hell, you go very fast.He ran out of the building like a bat out of hell. like a bat out of hellVery quickly or abruptly. His tires squealed as he drove out of the parking lot like a bat out of hell. like a bat out of hellInf. very fast or sudden. (Use caution with hell.) The cat took off like a bat out of hell. The car pulled away from the curb like a bat out of hell. like a bat out of hellMoving 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. like a bat out of hellINFORMALIf you go somewhere like a bat out of hell, you go there very quickly. She tore across the highway like a bat out of hell. I nearly ploughed right into her. Note: In this expression, `bat' is used to refer to a small, flying mammal. Bats are often associated with the devil, probably because they usually fly at night. like a bat out of hellvery fast and wildly. informal 1995 Patrick McCabe The Dead School Like a bat out of hell that Joe Buck gets on out of the apartment and doesn't stop running till he reaches Times Square. like a ˌbat out of ˈhell(informal) very fast: If there were a fire, I wouldn’t try to save any possessions. I’d be off like a bat out of hell!like a bat out of hell mod. very fast or sudden. (Use caution with hell.) The cat took off like a bat out of hell. like a bat out of hellMoving very fast indeed. This expression arose in the Air Force during World War I, originally likening the flight of fighter planes to that of the only surviving flying mammal. It soon was extended to any fast movement. A synonym with a similar combative origin is like a shot, dating from the late 1800s and alluding to the rapidity of a gunshot. |
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