like the wind, go/run
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
run like the wind
To run very fast. Come on, kids, run like the wind out to the car, or else we're going to be late!
See also: like, run, wind
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
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
- go like the wind
- run like the wind
- be whistling in the wind
- get/have the wind up
- have the wind up
- in the wind
- be in the wind
- off the wind
- sail near the wind