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at full blast

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at full blast

At the maximum level. It was so cold that I had the heat in my car going at full blast. He's going to damage his ears if he keeps playing his music at full blast like that. Whoa, don't start the show with the volume at full blast! Take it up notch by notch so that you don't make your audience jump out of their skin.
See also: blast, full
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*at full blast

using full power; as loudly as possible. (*Typically: be on ~; play ~; play something ~; run ~; run something ~.) The neighbors had their televisions on at full blast. The car radio was on at full blast. We couldn't hear what the driver was saying.
See also: blast, full
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The reality of the situation is that you stand freezing at a bus stop for a bus that turns up late or not at all before getting on to sit on manky seats - if you can get a seat - and listen to teenagers arguing, effing and blinding and playing their music at full blast.
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POLICE are warning they will use new powers to seize the cars of boy racers and people who cruise through residential streets playing their choice of music at full blast.
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