like billyo

like billyo

Very aggressively, vigorously, or enthusiastically. Primarily heard in UK. We've been working like billyo all month to get this finished in time. During the economic boom, people spent money on credit like billyo, with no regard for how they'd pay it all back.
See also: like
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

like billyo

or

like billy-oh

INFORMAL
If someone is doing something or something is happening like billyo or like billy-oh, it is being done or happening to a great degree and with a lot of energy. They were swinging their partners around like billyo. It is still very wet and so everything is growing like billy-oh
See also: like
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • like billy-o
  • like billy-o(h)
  • like sin
  • go great guns
  • going great guns
  • great guns
  • bog in
  • talk up a storm
  • up a storm
  • hate like sin
References in periodicals archive
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With Hapsburg chin jutting proudly and arms pumping like Billyo, Schumacher created almost enough upward momentum to clear the stands in his victory leap.
Formula One: SCHUEY CASHES IN TO LEAVE RIVALS IN THE RED; But Coulthard left fuming