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Like the clappers

prep_phrase, slang

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Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    Very hard or very rapidly. UK, informal

    "After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away."

Etymology

Partridge says: "Possibly rhyming slang for 'clappers of a bell', 'hell'."

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