Definition
At top speed.
Without hesitation or reservation, bluntly, no holds barred, totally, outright.
In Context
- "After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath."
- "I had travelled one morning down to Aylesbury, and had left my train, and was about to cross the footbridge, when I heard the imperious whistle of a "B1." I paused, and round the bend came the "Master Cutler" with its engine working absolutely flat out."
- "I was already sliding and too dedicated to change my line and just went flat out completely off the course."
- "When antelope are running flat out, they resemble very rapidly departing dots; some say they can hit 60 mph."
- "I was half way down the strip when I heard a speedboat and ran flat out back to the landing spot."
- "The company's growth in the rail freight market, with a mix of new-to-rail and contract gains, has led to it working flat out."
- "She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out."
- "He was flat out furious when his car was stolen."
- "Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it."
- "If, on the other hand, you simply deny flat out that you can give a metaphysical account of the concept “woman,” on the grounds that women are not essentially like one another in any respect— a position that, it′s important to notice, entails a commitment to your thinking that the idea of giving such an account is at least coherent— then you leave yourself with a problem about how to justify a politics based on the oppression of women."
- "“You′re gonna die,” he flat-out told Arfons."
- "Sometimes an eagerly promoted product turns out to be a joke — and sometimes it′s just flat out dangerous to life, limb, or commerce."
- "2006, Tony Rossi, Critique by guest commentator: Dr. Tony Rossi, Stephen Hagan, Australia's Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100, page 129, The media (in all its forms) has been known to stoop to even lower levels by flat out abusing non-whites such as the Bulletin's little description of Patrick Bowman reported above and then the Referee's self-congratulatory note that Evans (the Balmain nigger ped) had found gainful employment (at which he was 'very handy' rather than competent or skilled) and had ceased to waste everybody's time with his running."
- "But I was disappointed and really unhappy with myself because I′d given in to a gut reaction that was flat-out wrong."
- "The White House took issue with the assessment. Karoline Leavitt, a White House spokeswoman, said its findings were “flat-out wrong.”"