full blast

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Noun

full blast (uncountable)

(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; [...].

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maximum capacity or effort

Finnish: täysi teho (usually used in adessive), täysillä (fi) (on full blast)
French: à toute vapeur (fr)
Italian: piena potenza f
Portuguese: a todo vapor

References

John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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