(slang) with violence, desperation, cleverness, or other
quality attributed to the
devil; extremely, excessively. Well, she's gotten to a
point now where she
runs into
Mary Sue's room, looks demandingly at the
mantle where she knows some candy is kept for her, you see, and then just
barks like the
devil!
(colloquial) as if in a
state of torment or misery.
(colloquial) as in a
state of torment or misery.
(colloquial) not so; untrue; an interjection indicating the speaker's lack of belief in what he heard.
(colloquial) very much, very
hard, very
fast, etc.
(slang) with violence, desperation, cleverness, or other
quality attributed to the
devil; extremely, excessively.
with great
force, cunning etc.; extremely.
(colloquial) as in a
state of torment or misery. Now, if the
pc is feeling like the
devil,
pc's feeling miserable about an
auditing session or
auditor, or something like that . . .
-ARC Breaks and the Comm Cycle (24 July 63) (colloquial) as if in a
state of torment or misery. So eventually if you were stupid enough to
force them into some
word that they considered was
wrong, which was way down the
bank someplace, you'd
bypass all that, they'd
turn on a tremendous
somatic and they'd feel like the
devil.
-The Failed Case (27 Oct. 64) with great
force, cunning, etc.; extremely. And the only way we can do that is try to go like the
devil for the minimum
period.