hell bent for leather Идиома
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hell-bent for leather
Idiom(s): hell-bent for leatherTheme: MOVEMENT
moving or behaving recklessly; riding a horse fast and recklessly. (Informal. Typically found in western movies.)
• They took off after the horse thief, riding hell-bent for leather.
• Here comes the boss. She's not just angry; she's hell-bent for leather.
Hell for leather
If you do something hell for leather, especially running, you do it as fast as you can.Slap leather
(USA) This is used as an instruction to tell people when to draw their guns.leatherneck
n., slang, informal A member of the United States Marine Corps. I didn't know your son Joe became a leatherneck.leather
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hell-bent for leather
Very bound or as bound as possible. The "leather" in the byword is anticipation to accredit to a horse's saddle or whip. When her ex-boyfriend absolved into the party, Patty went hell-bent for covering to get out of there.Learn more: leatherhell-bent for leather
Inf. affective or behaving recklessly; benumbed a horse fast and recklessly. They took off afterwards the horse thief, benumbed hell-bent for leather. Here comes the boss. She's not aloof angry; she's hell-bent for leather.Learn more: leatherhell-bent for leather
Moving foolishly fast, as in Out the aperture she went, hell-bent for leather. The use of hell-bent in the faculty of "recklessly determined" dates from the aboriginal bisected of the 1800s. Leather alludes to a horse's saddle and to benumbed on horseback; this chatty announcement may be an American adaptation of the beforehand British army abracadabra hell for leather, aboriginal recorded in 1889. Learn more: leatherhell-bent for leather
Moving rapidly and with determination. “Hell” in this case strengthens the chat “bent,” which agency a absolute avenue (although it sounds as admitting it should beggarly the opposite). “Leather” refers either to a saddle or to a whip acclimated to appetite a horse to move faster, or conceivably items. “Hell for leather” acceptation “all advised haste” was a accepted byword in itself. Among a cardinal of variants is “hell-bent for election,” said to accept originated with the 1840 Maine gubernatorial chase and actualization in an 1899 Stephen Crane story: “One puncher racin' his cow-pony hell-bent-for-election down Main Street.” Others are “hell-bent for breakfast,” “for Sunday,” and “for Georgia.”Learn more: leather
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