hell-for-leather

alternative hell for leather

1. not comparableAs fast as possible; recklessly fast.

   He rode hell-for-leather to catch up with the stagecoach.

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   Captain Mafflin: Leave him alone. It's not bad enough to croak over. Here, Gaddy, take the chit to Bingle and ride hell-for-leather. It'll do you good. I can't go.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Valley of the Shadow—Knowing Good and Evil”, in The Story of the Gadsbys

   Some of the commissioning decisions that they have taken look like they have not paid sufficient regard to the development of services in the community. This hell-for-leather search for abstinence - they thought that they could eradicate the drug problem within prisons by running a few programmes and detox units ... the first tranche of service development was very much based around that.

   1999 December 28, Karen Duke, quoting the director of a drug agency, “Containing contradictions: the development of prison drugs policy in England since 1980.”, in Middlesex University Research Repository, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026

   You see, the temptation is to stick at one. The temptation is to assume that the others will go hell-for-leather trying to accumulate as many pink ladies as possible and eventually have the green egg.

   2019 June 19, “This is Trevor.” (12:40 from the start), in Taskmaster, season 8, episode 7, spoken by a contestant (Paul Sinha)

   Synonyms: like a bat out of hell