like the wind

prepositional phrase3

1. •
   Quickly, at a high speed.

   • At any rate, in my experience, they could run like the wind, but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them. — 1947
2. •
   Invisibly, mysteriously, unpredictably.

   • The Spirit Of God is like the wind. Note well that his operation is unexpected. The wind bloweth where it listeth, so that thou knowest not what wind to expect. — 1889
3. •
   Changeably, freely and at liberty.