Meaning of balls to the wall | Babel Free

Definitions

1. With maximum effort or commitment.
   US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang
2. Full throttle; (at) maximum speed.
   US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang

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Examples

“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⟳.”

““I always go balls to the wall,” founding Ape Gordon Goner tells Rolling Stone over Zoom.”

““Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have⟳ been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like⟳, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’””

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