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like a blue-arsed fly
vs
like the clappers
like a blue-arsed fly
adj
To be frantic, harried or restless
like the clappers
prep
Very hard or very rapidly.
How often have the words
like a blue-arsed fly
and
like the clappers
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)