like a bat out of hell

My wife shot out of the corner like a bat out of hell and leapt from her truck.

And then when we put him on the lead — sometimes it’s a struggle to get them to move — he took to it like a bat out of hell.”

“I jumped in my car and drove like a bat out of hell … jumped in a helicopter and we were flying that day,” Johnson said, recalling risky flights over lava flows.

“I drove like a bat out of hell,” he said.

“I drove like a bat out of hell,” he said.