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like a bat out of hell
vs
like a blue-arsed fly
like a bat out of hell
prep
With crazy or excessive intensity or speed.
like a blue-arsed fly
adj
To be frantic, harried or restless
How often have the words
like a bat out of hell
and
like a blue-arsed fly
occurred in a corpus of books?
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