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like gangbusters

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like gangbusters
with great excitement and speed. (From the phrase "Come on like gangbusters," a radio show that "came on" with lots of noise and excitement.) She works like gangbusters and gets the job done. They are selling tickets like gangbusters.
See also: gangbuster, like

like gangbusters  (American informal)
very successfully Both books have been selling like gangbusters.
See also: gangbuster, 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.
The industry is growing like gangbusters," said Dave Smith, president of Coast Asset Management, a $2.
The comic scenes in John Weidman's book play like gangbusters thanks to Mary Catherine Garrison, Becky Ann Baker, and Mario Cantone.
 
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