Definition of balls to the wall

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balls to the wall
idiom

(context, US, slang) To carry out an action as rapidly as possible.
(context, by extension) To carry out an action as thoroughly as possible.
- 2006, Michael Brown, testimony before the US Senate Homeland Security Committee,
- :I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was , that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything -- to do everything they humanly could to respond.

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