balls to the wall
Adverb
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Adverb
balls to the wall (not comparable)
- (US, idiomatic, slang) Full throttle; (at) maximum speed. [since the 1960s]
- (US, idiomatic, slang) (With) maximum effort or commitment. [since the 1960s]
- 2006, Michael D. Brown, Testimony before the US Senate Homeland Security Committee:
- I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was balls to the wall, that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything—to do everything they humanly could to respond.
- 2006, Michael D. Brown, Testimony before the US Senate Homeland Security Committee:
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