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(at) full steam idiom (of a steam engine) using the greatest possible amount of steam, in order to travel as fast as possible, or work as hard as possible: At full steam, the ship could move from the tropics to the Arctic in a matter of weeks. working as hard as possible: The company is pressing ahead at full steam with development of the electric car. She's tireless. She is going full steam, it seems, 24 hours a day. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Maximum and minimum (at) full stretchidiom at capacity at leastidiom bare credit limit flat outphrase give a hundred percentidiom least limit mass maximal maximally maximum min. minimum outside peak percent the bare minimumphrase the full monty
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