likeone o'clock

1. (UK,simile,slang,obsolete) Very quickly or vigorously.
   • 1855 December –1857 June, Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1857,→OCLC:

     Brought up as a gentleman, he was, if ever a man was. Ed’cated at no end of expense. Went into the Marshal’s house once to try a new piano for him. Played it, I understand,like one o’clock—beautiful! As to languages—speaks anything.

   • 1899,H. G. Wells,Mr. Brisher's Treasure:

     I went over the fence like a shot, and ranlike one o'clock for the trap, cussing and swearing as I went.

• like one o'clock half struck

• John Camden Hotten (1873)The Slang Dictionary

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