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like a blue-arsed fly
vs
like a dose of salts
like a blue-arsed fly
adj
To be frantic, harried or restless
like a dose of salts
prep
Very quickly and thoroughly.
How often have the words
like a blue-arsed fly
and
like a dose of salts
occurred in a corpus of books?
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