like a scalded dog
With great rapidity.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
like a spare prick at a wedding
Uselessly superfluous.
like a stuck pig
Like a pig or boar being slaughtered.
like a ton of bricks
Very strongly; very heavily; often unexpectedly.
like a wolf on the fold
In a sudden or aggressive manner.
like an explosion in a paint factory
Riotously colorful.
like as two peas
Synonym of like two peas in a pod.
like atomic clockwork
With absolute regularity and precision; faultlessly.
like butter on a bald monkey
Very smooth.
like candy
Freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.
like cats and dogs
Combative; inclined to fight amongst themselves.
like clockwork
With perfect regularity and precision; faultless.
like crack
Very addicting.
like crazy
To a great or excessive degree; with great speed, output, enthusiasm, etc.
like death warmed over
Ill, unwell.
like feeding time at the zoo
Extremely frenetic, disorderly and messy.
like flies on a rib roast
In very large numbers.
like flies on pie
Synonym of like white on rice.
like gangbusters
Vigorously, rapidly, zealously, or forcibly; in a manner which has considerable impact.
like grim death
With savage determination or persistence.
like hot cakes
Synonym of quickly, especially in the context of sales or consumption.
like it's going out of style
Of engaging in an activity: enthusiastically; to an excessive degree.
like kicking dead whales down the beach
Very slow and difficult.
like like
To fancy; to be romantically or sexually attracted to.
like molasses
Very slowly and gradually.
like mushrooms
Very quickly and in great quantity.
like nobody's business
In an extreme manner; excessively; like crazy.
like of
To be pleased with; to approve of.
like one needs a hole in the head
not (needed) at all
like one owns the place
With a sense of arrogant superiority.
like peas and carrots
Getting along very well; being compatible; like a house on fire.
like rats from a sinking ship
Quickly but futilely, away from a failing project.
like riding a bike
Said of a skill that, once learned, is never forgotten.
like robbing a baby
Synonym of like taking candy from a baby.
like shelling peas
Repetitive, but very easy.
like shooting fish in a barrel
Extremely easy; sometimes with a connotation of triumph but at other times with a connotation of being meaningless and unsatisfying.
like sin
Very much, or very hard; strongly.
like stink on shit
In very close proximity; following closely.
like strange bulldogs
Wary and unfriendly; on the verge of a fight.
like taking candy from a baby
Very easy to achieve.
like the bottom of a birdcage
Very foul-tasting; said of a person's mouth after heavy drinking etc.
like the cat that got the cream
Very satisfied and happy.
like the new time
Furiously or vigorously, repeatedly.
like the wind
Quickly, at a high speed.
like the wrath of God
Very bad or unpleasant.
like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
Used to describe penetrative sex with a woman who has a large, spacious vagina.
like two peas in a pod
Very similar; a couple made for each other.
like water
Abundantly; consumed rapidly or found in great quantity.
like winkin
Very quickly.
like winking
Very rapidly; in a flash.
likker up
Synonym of liquor up.
lil bro
Diminutive of bro, a smaller or younger boy or man.
lily
White (as a racial epithet).
lily-white
Of the Caucasian race; white.
limb of the law
A lawyer, or clerk articled to that profession.
limber as a dishrag
Extremely limber or flexible
limber up
To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise.
limbo
Jail, prison; (countable) a jail cell or lockup.
limby
An amputee, especially one who has lost a leg.
lime disease
Hypersensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, causing pus-filled rashes, caused by furanocoumarins in lime juice. Furanocoumarins damage DNA when activated by UV.