What is Going Like The Clappers?
1.
to be running to or from something very very fast
his podgy little legs were going like the clappers
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2.
anything which appears to be going fast or repetitvly.
from either the loose hammers inside churchbells, or an old shrove tuesday custom involving begging by clapping stones together
going like the clappers
running like the clappers
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