like the clappers

Etymology
Partridge says: "Possibly rhyming slang for 'clappers of a bell', 'hell'."

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  Very hard or very rapidly.
 * After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.

Translations

 * Catalan: a tota llet
 * German: in einem Affentempo, sehr schnell,
 * Spanish:, escopetado