full blast
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English
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Noun
- (idiomatic) Maximum capacity or effort
- 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:
- At Fallgate a short branch leading to a quarry is disused, but some gravel pits are working at full blast; [...].
Synonyms
Translations
maximum capacity or effort
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References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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