Meanings
- colloquialWith great vigour.
They saw us and ran for it like merry hell, trying to get there and plunder it before we could raise the alarm.
2015, Jonathan Peace, The Bloodstone Of Cerillion, page 511 more example
But basically the classical musicians kept their eyes glued to their parts and played like merry hell, and the drummer kept his eyes glued on the conductor drummed like merry hell whenever he was cued—but there was no emotional unity […]
2003, Maxwell Steer, Music and Mysticism: Parts 3 and 4, page 11
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