like blue murder

1. 1.

   at top speed

   “he ran flat out to catch the bus”

   “he was off down the road like blue murder”

   Synonymsflat out

Questions about like blue murder

What does like blue murder mean?

like blue murder means "at top speed".

What is another word for like blue murder?

Close synonyms include flat out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is like blue murder a common word?

like blue murder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.