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full speed ahead en · ADJ

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1. (idiomatic, not-comparable) Unhesitant.
   • The company's full speed ahead approach to product development would ultimately be its downfall.
   • I was always so busy and full-speed ahead that I didn't take any time out to really listen to God. 2009, Shattered, →ISBN, page 129:
   • And what he's done in climbing is no less than world class — a blend of vision and genetic athleticism, with a full-speed-ahead approach that dwells on the possibilities, not the problems. 2013, Pete Takeda, An Eye at the Top of the World, →ISBN, page 90:

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sv full fart framåt (idiom, maximum effort) · it a capofitto (idiom, maximum effort) · he מָלֵא קָדִימָה (nautical) · fr en avant toute (nautical) · es a toda máquina (nautical) · pl cała naprzód (idiom, maximum effort) · pl pełną parą (nautical) · pl całą parą (idiom, maximum effort) · pt a todo vapor (idiom, maximum effort) · ja 全速前進 (nautical) · pl cała naprzód (nautical) · he בִּמְלוֹא הַקִיטוֹר (idiom, maximum effort) · pl całą parą (nautical) · es a toda máquina (idiom, maximum effort) · fr pleins gaz (idiom, maximum effort) · fr à toute vitesse (idiom, maximum effort) · it avanti tutta (nautical) · he קָדִימָה מָלֵא (nautical) · pt a todo vapor (nautical) · it avanti tutta (idiom, maximum effort) · it a tutto vapore (nautical) · ko 전속 전진 (nautical) · pl pełną parą (idiom, maximum effort) · cmn 全速前進 /全速前进 (nautical) · sv full fart framåt (nautical)

full speed ahead en · ADV

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1. (idiomatic, not-comparable) With maximum effort, without reservations or delay.
   • He charged full speed ahead into his studies.

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plow ahead

full speed ahead en · INTJ

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1. (usually) A command to move forward at maximum speed.
   • Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
   • We had advanced a hundred yards, perhaps, when our first danger confronted us. Just ahead was a sharp right-angle turn in the tunnel. I could see the river's flotsam hurtling against the rocky wall upon the left as it was driven on by the mighty current, and I feared for the safety of the U-33 in making so sharp a turn under such adverse conditions; but there was nothing for it but to try. I didn't warn my fellows of the danger--it could have but caused them useless apprehension, for if we were to be smashed against the rocky wall, no power on earth could avert the quick end that would come to us. I gave the command full speed ahead and went charging toward the menace. I was forced to approach the dangerous left-hand wall in order to make the turn, and I depended upon the power of the motors to carry us through the surging waters in safety. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

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full speed ahead en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable, usually) Maximum speed on a ship.
   • Then he gave it full speed ahead, and shot us into the inlet.
2. (idiomatic, uncountable) Maximum effort without reservations or delay.
   • We got the OK on the conversion project. It's full speed ahead.

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