like the dickens

Example Sentences

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Partch and others have been trying like the dickens to save it.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2020

This would not be too bad, except we have very high ceilings and it echoes like the dickens.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2019

And while the rest of Washington  looks at a paltry snowmelt and bone-dry rivers, it’s still raining like the dickens in Forks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2015

It’s not only a sentimental keepsake; if you look at how overstuffed it is, it’s a reminder of how he worked like the dickens into his 70s and 80s.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2015

After all the bragging I had done about what a good monkey catcher I was, I hated like the dickens to go and face him, but I couldn’t just run away.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls