Meaning of like fits | Babel Free

Definitions

in squalls, strongly, in paroxysms

obsolete

Examples

“That night we arrived at a little place called Georgenthal where we got a jolly supper and slept in two most romantically large, rickety, cold and ghostly chambers, with the wind outside blowing like fits and creaking the dismal old sign in the most pleasing manner.”

“It was blowing like fits; if anything had carried away I should have been on shore in a jiffy..”

“[…] the weather has changed instead of freezing now it is blowing gales and raining like fits.”

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