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gangbuster

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come on like gangbusters (American, informal)
to start doing something eagerly and with a lot of energy, especially performing or talking to people. In one of his most renowned performances, Cagney comes on like gangbusters as hoodlum Tom Powers.
See also: come, like

like gangbusters (American, informal)

very successfully. Both books have been selling like gangbusters.
See also: like

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``But they were down pretty good there for five or six weeks, and they came out like gangbusters, so they have done a good job.
However, he predicts that even poison ivy's gangbuster growth will eventually hit some limit, such as available sunlight.
I think that would be gangbusters for us," he said.
 
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