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As anything vs Like anything

as anything—an intensifier used as part of an informal comparison:

  • Natasha was one of these people who’s nice as anything until you don’t do something she says.

like anything—(coll.) do smth. with great energy or enthusiasm:

  • He waved to us and we waved back like anything.

Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase like nothing on earth—(coll.)

1. extremely strange; highly unusual:

  • You may yet meet with a lumbering native bear, like nothing on earth so much as a child’s woolly toy.

2. feeling or looking very ill or miserable:

  • That dreadful period when you’re just coming out of an anesthetic and feeling like nothing on earth is not the time when you want a visitor.