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full speed ahead!; full throttle (1. A maximum setting on an engine or motor control. 1943, Johnston Carroll, "Wings of the North", in Leo Margulies editor, Flying Wildcats, page 127: there was no further sign of any Nazi planes, Perry banked southward and went roaring home to Base on full throttles 1975, John Innes Clarke, An Advanced Geography of Africa, page 43: its regs and serirs over which Land Rovers can race with full throttles and little chance of meeting any obstacle larger than a fist-sized stone. 2003, Bob Bondurant; John Blakemore, Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving, page 85: Under full throttle, your car is just on the border of maximum traction 2. A maximum level of speed, effort, or risk. 1999, David M. Jacobs, The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, page 228: I'm in the full throttles of an embrace and this is wonderful. 2003, Jennifer Hendricks; Gordon Hendricks, Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment, page 176: In the third week Dr. Gale shifted into full throttle back pedal. 2008, Otis L Graham, Jr., Immigration Reform and America's Unchosen Future, page 193: The full-throttle growth was still in place, as it had been as long as I could remember. WT Alexander Demidov) |
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at full pelt; at full speed; full pelt; full tilt; nip and tuck; at full stretch; full drive; in at full pelt; at full tilt (Anglophile); in full swing (Work in full swing on Bahrain's premium waterfront project. • Work on the project is in full swing.
MargeWebley); at full blast (Inchionette); full blast; at breakneck speed (Liv Bliss); at full steam; at full throttle (as fast as possible: She drove at full throttle. The project is proceeding at full throttle. MWALD. at full speed/tilt/pelt/throttle/ phrase as fast as possible: The horses ran at full pelt round the track. MED Alexander Demidov); full throttle (1. A maximum setting on an engine or motor control. 1943, Johnston Carroll, "Wings of the North", in Leo Margulies editor, Flying Wildcats, page 127: there was no further sign of any Nazi planes, Perry banked southward and went roaring home to Base on full throttles 1975, John Innes Clarke, An Advanced Geography of Africa, page 43: its regs and serirs over which Land Rovers can race with full throttles and little chance of meeting any obstacle larger than a fist-sized stone. 2003, Bob Bondurant; John Blakemore, Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving, page 85: Under full throttle, your car is just on the border of maximum traction 2. A maximum level of speed, effort, or risk. 1999, David M. Jacobs, The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, page 228: I'm in the full throttles of an embrace and this is wonderful. 2003, Jennifer Hendricks; Gordon Hendricks, Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment, page 176: In the third week Dr. Gale shifted into full throttle back pedal. 2008, Otis L Graham, Jr., Immigration Reform and America's Unchosen Future, page 193: The full-throttle growth was still in place, as it had been as long as I could remember. WT Alexander Demidov); full steam (Mr. Wolf); apace (The privatization of state companies continued apace Taras); at top speed; full swing |
