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full pelt

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(at) full pelt/steam/tilt  (informal)
as fast as possible He was going full pelt down the motorway but he still didn't make it to the airport in time.
See also: full, pelt


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It's a good day off us, anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south at full pelt as hard as they can go.
At last, when I began to think that probably something had gone wrong in his engine-room, we perceived the tug going by, full pelt, down the river, as if we hadn't existed.
 
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