like crazy

Idioms  

1. Also, like mad; like nobody's business. With exceeding enthusiasm or speed, without restraint. For example, We shopped like crazy and bought all our furniture in one day, or Once he's out of the town limits he drives like mad, or The choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus like nobody's business. The first terms employ crazy and mad in the sense of “lunatic” as a hyperbole for lack of restraint; the third implies that no business could be conducted in such an extraordinary fashion. The first and third date from the 1920s, the second from the mid-1600s.

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Example Sentences

See: Stocks are swinging like crazy while the S&P 500 goes nowhere in 2026.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

While this system works like crazy for rappers in France or Brazil, who are now all over the charts in their homelands, it potentially hampers artists in the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

So, we will live to 120 and spend like crazy.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

More recent has been the number of bars and pubs built around "competitive socialising", where dates or groups split time between the bar and games like crazy golf, shuffleboard or axe-throwing.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

And it burns like crazy, too, every little speck of dirt like a teeny-tiny lit match.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

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