Meaning: clappers 
'klæpə
n.
a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
n.
someone who applauds
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
run like the clappers Idiom, Proverb
Like the clappers
If something is going like the clappers, it is going very fast.Like the clappers
If article is activity like the clappers, it is activity actual fast.run like the clappers
To run acutely bound or vigorously. Primarily heard in UK. If we run like the clappers, we should be able to about-face our affidavit in afore the architecture closes. Customers ran like the clappers into the abundance to snatch up as abounding bargains as they could carry.Learn more: clapper, like, run
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Like giving a donkey strawberries Like no one's business Like peas in a pod Like pulling teeth Like taking candy from a baby Like the back of your hand Like the clappers Like there's no tomorrow Like two peas in a pod Like watching sausage getting made Like white on rice Like wildfire Lines of communicationArrayLike giving a donkey strawberries Like no one's business Like peas in a pod Like pulling teeth Like taking candy from a baby Like the back of your hand Like the clappers Like there's no tomorrow Like two peas in a pod Like watching sausage getting made Like white on rice Like wildfire Lines of communication run into a brick wall run into a roadblock run into a stone wall run into debt run into headwinds run into the ground run into the sand run it down run it down (to one) run it down for (one) run it up the flagpole (and see who salutes) run it up the flagpole (and see who salutes), let's run its course run its course, to run late run like a chicken with its head cut off run like a dream run like a headless chicken run like a top run like butter run like clockwork run like clockwork, to run like hell run like hell (away) from (someone or something) run like stink run like the clappers run like the devil run like the devil from (someone or something) run like the dickens run like the wind run low run of luck run of play run of the mill run off run off at the mouth run off at the mouth, to run off in all directions run off the smell of an oily rag run off with run off with (one) run off with (something) run on run on (something) run on all cylinders run on empty run on fumes run on the bank run on the smell of an oily rag run one ragged run one's head against (into) a brick/stone wall, to
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