flat out | Idiomator

Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeflat,‎out.1967October 6, Dora Jane Hamblin, “Out to Sea and into History”, inLIFE,page29:So many of them took pictures, of themselves and of me, that we ranflat outof black-and-white film the second day out, and there wasn′t a Queen Mary necktie to be had in the shops after we left the port.; Complete,total,downright.2003, Thomas B. Sawyer,Fiction Writing Demystified‎[1], page63:AvoidFlat-OutOppositesThe slob vs. the neatnik. The artist vs. the precision-freak. The freethinker vs. the tightass. Liberal vs. conservative. Jock vs. nerd. David vs. Goliath. Good vs. evil. Beauty and the Beast. Jekyll[sic]and Hyde.2008, Shira Tarrant, Jackson Katz,Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power,page148:I put up with a lot from them: sexist and racist jokes, routine descriptions of masculinist sexploitation,flat-outridicule for my feminist views.; Verybusy.2006, Gideon Kunda,Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation‎[2], page203:I know we are allflat out. That is the way it is. We areflat out, and it becomes a way of life.; (Australia)Lazy,sleeping.flat out(like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing

Examples:

EN: I took a number 2 iron, went flat out for it!
ES: Cogí uno de hierro del dos, iba directo a por ello.
EN: They're flat out into the main stretch.
ES: Están ambos en la recta.
EN: - Did you take her flat out?
ES: ¿Conseguiste nivelar?
EN: Twenty miles an hour flat out.
ES: 30 kms a la hora, a toda máquina.
EN: I hear another flat out of you I'll poison you in your own liquor.
ES: Si dices otra palabra te envenenaré con tu propio licor.
EN: 145 kph flat out... this is a tank.
ES: A 145 km/h los planos afuera... es un tanque.
EN: Engine room, give me everything you've got, flat out!
ES: ¡Sala de máquina, deme toda la potencia!
EN: You've been flat out like a lizard drinking, but he's been with you all the way.
ES: Has ido rápido como un lagarto pero te ha seguido el ritmo.
EN: You reckon you could ride him flat out and not fall off him? Could I?
ES: ¿Crees que podrías montarlo sin caerte?
EN: I'm already flat out, Mr. Jackson.
ES: Estoy yendo a tope, Sr. Jackson.
EN: - I'm flat out now, mate.
ES: - Ya voy a tope.
EN: And the 15th, they called him off flat out.
ES: Y a la 15ª vez se lo llevaron inconsciente.
EN: I'm flat out. We'll soon catch him up.
ES: ¡Tengo el acelerador a fondo, ya le vamos a alcanzar!
EN: Osborn, try it flat out now.
ES: Osborn, a toda velocidad.
EN: - Look at Monty, flat out!
ES: - ¡Mira a Monty, desmayado!

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