like crazy

Idioms and Phrases

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.

Example Sentences

“Even though that sounds like crazy instructions, I knew exactly what she meant,” says Launay, who lived in Australia for a decade.

From Los Angeles Times

The Lions are scoring like crazy, making up for the huge loss of Aidan Hutchinson on the defensive front.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’d really hoped that she would come, because we can’t get enough of hearing her beautiful laugh. She laughs like crazy. We would recognize it anyplace in this room.”

From Salon

“I started to cry like crazy for all the people who had died there,” he told us in that classroom.

From Salon

After COVID, we had all these bands that were streaming like crazy.

From Los Angeles Times

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