| 词汇 | like a shot out of hell |
| 词源 | like a shot out of hell. When the last half of this phrase was coined is a mystery, but like a shot dates back to 1809. Dickens later employed the expression, and it became widely used for “fast, very quickly,” like a bullet fired from a gun. |
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