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an unimaginably large amount
British say `it rained like billyo' where Americans say `it rained like all get out'
How To Use billy-ho In A Sentence
- I am very foolish, "says she, sniffing, and presently, when the Prince and Princess withdrew, she was all smiles again, curtseying like billy-ho, and kissing me a tender farewell. Flashman's Lady
- Pincher had got Lord Tottenham by the trouser leg and was holding on like billy-ho, so we started to run. The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- You'll just have to practise like billy-ho!" said Betty Brierley, who was addicted to slang. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
- I nearly had a seizure as a hidden voice bawled: "Now!" and as Moran swung from the window there was a scramble of feet and two dark shapes hurled themselves on him, fists swinging like billy-ho, and the three of them went down in a swearing, yelling tangle. Watershed
- The glass is dropping like billy-ho, and there's a brute of a sea tumbling in. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War
