like fun

English

(manner, US, dated) Intensely.
- 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 16:
  "Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.
- c. 1868, James Crane, a song, in Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, page 286:
  "The railway's begun The Mormons are cutting / And grading like fun."
(as response, US, dated) Definitely not.
- 1927 October 7, “Chess Championship.”, in Ottawa Citizen:
  Do they think I have a million dollars and spend it? Like fun I do. Not with the kind of discipline my parents believe in.
- a. 1946, Raymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas, editors, Adventures in time and space: an anthology of modern science-fiction stories, page 607:
  "Give me that gun!" "Like fun I will," Leigh snapped.