English idiom LIKE NUTS

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Rachel's English


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So a guy just told me that you'd swim like nuts at your lesson.
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Ehm,  nuts can't swim. They just sink at the bottom.
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Nuts. US slang. Crazy. Definition three,  
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adjective. If you're crazy about something, you're  very enthusiastic about it. Stoney loves swimming.  
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He was swimming like nuts. He took the literal  meaning of nuts, like peanuts, and thought, 'hmm,  
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I think those would sink'. But of course, I meant  like nuts, like crazy, with so much enthusiasm.
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