flat-out
moving or working at top speed or with maximum effort; all-out: a flat-out effort by all contestants.
downright; thoroughgoing: Many of the paintings were flat-out forgeries.
Origin of flat-out
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How to use flat-out in a sentence
The president came to believe Shamir misled him on the settlement issue, or flat-out lied to him.
The Inside Story of U.S. Meddling in Israel’s Elections | Aaron David Miller | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis post-mortem that there is no red or blue America was tired and flat-out wrong.
Let me say, flat out, that Harold Conrad was the single most happening, been-everywhere/done-everything cat I ever met.
The Stacks: Harold Conrad Was Many Things, But He Was Never, Ever Dull | Mark Jacobson | March 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOld Don said flat-out that he took the girl for both him and his son.
More vexing than the short-shrift mentions are the flat-out omissions.
John Sutherland‘s Enjoyable Little History of Literature | Malcolm Forbes | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
It was all like putting a man in a racing car traveling flat out on the Salts in Bonneville, Utah.
What Need of Man? | Harold CalinIt was no use, however, it is next to impossible to throw a man when he is lying flat out as the Brahmin now was.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier | James InglisAnd now lay down that purse,” he continued briefly, “before I shoot the flat out of your eye.
Silver and Gold | Dane CoolidgePigeons were cooing near, and several dogs were lying flat out in the shade which the wide eaves of the house afforded.
Polly | L. T. MeadeHe has the term to finish, and certainly you would not have him flat out on his job when the end is in sight.
The Story of Porcelain | Sara Ware Bassett
Other Idioms and Phrases with flat-out
In a direct manner, bluntly. For example, He told the true story flat out. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]
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