English Explanatory Dictionary

hell-for-leather

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. As fast as possible; recklessly fast.

Word forms

hell-for-leather hell for leather

Etymology

An early reference is from 1888 in "The Gadsbys" by Rudyard Kipling, referring to the effect on the leather of a saddle (or perhaps a crop) of riding a horse as fast as possible.

Synonyms

like a bat out of hell

Related words

hell-bent for leather
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