full speed ahead

Speech parts

1. full speed ahead - Noun

2. full speed ahead - Adjective

3. full speed ahead - Adverb

4. full speed ahead - Interjection

Meaning

full speed ahead

(usually nautical) A command to move forward at maximum speed.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

(usually nautical) Maximum speed on a ship.
Then he gave it full speed ahead, and shot us into the inlet.

(idiomatic) Maximum effort without reservations or delay.
We got the OK on the conversion project. It's full speed ahead.

full speed ahead (not comparable)

(idiomatic) With maximum effort, without reservations or delay.
He charged full speed ahead into his studies.

full speed ahead (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Unhesitant.
The company's full speed ahead approach to product development would ultimately be its downfall.

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If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. Oprah Winfrey

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. Betsey Johnson

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead. William Osler

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who led the signature collection exercise in Murang'a County, reiterated his earlier stand that "It's full speed ahead as the drive draws near to a close as we ready ourselves for the next steps of the BBI process." Source: Internet

For now, though, Disney/20th Century Studios are going full speed ahead with making it the first new theatrical release from a major studio to open domestically since March. Source: Internet

“It’s full speed ahead.” Source: Internet

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