hell for leather
See also: hell-for-leather
English
Adverb
hell for leather (not comparable)
- Less common form of hell-for-leather
- 1963, Frederick Barnardo, An Active Life, Bodley Head, page 194,
- A few minutes later I was driving hell for leather to Parel, some six miles out of Bombay, where Colonel Liston was in charge of the government laboratory.
- 1988, Emma Lange, The Cost of Honor, →ISBN, page 96:
- It was one of the pleasures of the country to be able to ride hell for leather in the early morning... .
- 2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 290,
- When Alfie had breathlessly told him that Sarah had gone into labour and was on her way to hospital, he'd dropped the lead rein and headed back hell for leather.
- 1963, Frederick Barnardo, An Active Life, Bodley Head, page 194,