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flat out
adverb
as fast as possible AUSTRALIA, 1941- Everyone’s flat out just at the moment[.] — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, 64 1954
- If they’ve unloaded a full cargo then they’ll have worked flat-out to finish by dark[.] — J.E. MacDonnell, Sabotage!, p. 31, 1964
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 150, 1969
- [T]he car was going flat out, and the fleet of irate husbands was in hot pursuit. — Alvin Purple, p. 116, 1974
- Machines, bodies, and brains worked flat out, spurred on by an impatient deadline and an irate editor. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 95, 1983
- — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 120, 1994
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