HELL-FOR-LEATHER


Meaning of HELL-FOR-LEATHER in English

I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adverb

: in a hell-for-leather manner : at full tilt : hell-bent

galloped hell-for-leather down the trail

II. adjective

Etymology: hell-for-leather (I)

: marked by determined recklessness or great speed or force : rip-roaring

she swept down the dizzying descent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man — Time

III. noun

: wild abandon or frantic haste

became surer of his music … learned … to take it easy when the crowd did not demand hell-for-leather — Harold Sinclair

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.