“Like a bat out of hell”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English and Welsh flee the devil: a bat escaping hell, and a cat running to the devil, rhedeg fel cath i gythraul. Latvian runs like a naked man through nettles, kā pliks pa nātrēm: fast, and painfully.

French drives as if the grave were already open, à tombeau ouvert, or so fast the car leans onto its hubcaps, sur les chapeaux de roues. Portuguese hurries as if to take its father down from the gallows, tirar o pai da forca; legend says Saint Anthony did just that, traveling by miracle to Lisbon.