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adv. (context simile English) With crazy or excessive intensity or speed.
Usage examples of "like a bat out of hell".
He fell back with a cry of surprise as she dropped her own tankard on the floor, and shot out the back door like a bat out of hell.
He'd nearly been run down several times by cigs similar to his going like a bat out of hell down narrow cuts, barely making the turns and swinging wide as they did.
A patrol car passed him, headed toward the precinct station, going like a bat out of hell.
I came off of it like a bat out of hell, and I must have gone four or five blocks before I came to my senses and slowed down.
Apparently the hole would be traveling like a bat out of hell from the very moment of its birth.
If I had them, I'd be able to go up and down dunes like a bat out of hell!
And then, suddenly, when he was well inside the atmosphere but still going like a bat out of hell, there was an atomic explosion that devastated all of five thousand square miles of the planet's surface.
I took advantage of that, jammed the throttles full forward, and grabbed for altitude like a bat out of hell.
And all of a sudden, like that was all he was waiting for, he took off like a bat out of hell.
The pod darted away like a bat out of hell, turning straight into the sun and clawing for distance.
This meant that it went like a bat out of hell, but didn't corner so well, as Cortez discovered the first time he sailed around a bend and nearly went into the ditch.