billy-o

Elsewhere in the Observer the madding crowd strives away like billy-o, just as it did in the days of Richard Nixon and Reginald Maudling, but for those needing a refuge from the weekly din there's still the cool sequester'd vale inhabited by Azed.

Azed: a giant among crosswords Francis Wheen 2010

It struck me that it wasn't safe to be gallivanting about this house in the dark - they might think I was on the East tack, spying - so I flitted on, and two minutes later was stallioning away like billy-o with my modest flower of the steppes - by jingo, she was in a fine state of passion, I remember.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

But they'd lost no time: already they had a mayor and corporation, and a Grand Central Hotel, and a bath-house and stores and theatres and saloons and gaming-houses and dance-halls, with clerks and barbers and harlots and shopmen and traders and drink enough to float a ship, and everyone beavering away like billy-o and doing a roaring trade.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

"The wind was cutting up like billy-o, but his drapes-his kilts and his plaid, you know-they didn't move at all, except to the stir of his walking."

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Either it's all a lot of hippy nonsense and we can happily go on burning our fossil fuels like billy-o, or we are teetering on the brink of apocalypse and should spare absolutely no effort to reduce carbon emmissions and thus minimise the planetary warming.

Climate change 2008

Switch the hob off sos's you don't burn the house down, then put the chocolate in the hot milk and whisk it like billy-o until there are no lumps left.

Archive 2008-11-01 MissPrism 2008

Would you prefer premier top-notch editing that cannot be compared to, or do you think what a book really needs is a fabuloso marketing campaign that sells your books like billy-o.

Editing V. Publicity In a Fight to the Finish fusenumber8 2007

His talk of Epirote guards that would skin their own grandmothers was all billy-o.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

That was when I saw it was a regimental Colour, and here they came, a regular flood of riflemen, whooping and cheering like billy-o, charging the Ab musketeers who fairly ran before them.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

“Your granddaughter, sir, and my daughter-inlaw want to fight like billy-o.”

The Silver Spoon 2004