For dear life
For dear life adverb - As though your life was at stake.
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Synonyms for For dear life
Like gangbusters and for dear life are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like gangbusters" instead an adverb phrase "For dear life".
Like gangbusters
For dear life and like gangbusters are semantically related. You can use "For dear life" instead an adverb phrase "Like gangbusters".
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- hard and for dear life
- hard and like gangbusters
- rigourously and for dear life
- rigourously and like gangbusters
- energetically and for dear life
- energetically and like gangbusters
- powerfully and for dear life
- powerfully and like gangbusters
- strenuously and for dear life
- strenuously and like gangbusters
- heartily and for dear life
- heartily and like gangbusters
- forcefully and for dear life
- forcefully and like gangbusters
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