like mad
informalDefinition
B2 If you do something like mad, you do it very enthusiastically, quickly, or a lot: She's been saving like mad because she wants to buy a car.Hurrying and doing things quicklyBusy and activeUncontrolled
(Definition of like mad from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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