go like the wind
go like the wind
To move very quickly. Come on, kids, go like the wind out to the car, or else we're going to be late!
See also: go, like, wind
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
go, run, etc. like the ˈwind
go, run, etc. very fast: We had to drive like the wind to get there in time. She ran like the wind. OPPOSITE: at a snail’s paceSee also: like, wind
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
like the wind, go/run
Very swiftly. “Swifter than the winds” appears as far back as the Roman poet Virgil’s Aeneid and is echoed by numerous later writers. Another old expression, no longer heard, is on the wings of the wind, which appears twice in the Book of Psalms and was repeated by many later writers.
See also: go, like, run
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- go, run, etc. like the wind
- like the wind, go/run
- run like the wind
- have the wind up
- get/have the wind up
- eye of the wind
- in the eye of the wind
- a capful of wind
- be in the wind
- in the wind