A guy told me today that he and his company were going "balls to the wall" right now.
WTF does that even mean and how is it a good thing?
Discuss.
…and add yer own fun sayings here.
Pastor of Muppets
balls to the wall
Really? Aviation term.
Hell for leather
I'm a gearbox-bike nut.
loved that song growing up
Pilot term. Ball of the throttle control is against front of cockpit thus ball to the wall. Now Wtf does cockpit mean?
I'm gonna guess it comes from the nautical world. The coxswain(or cockswain)would pilot a boat from the cockpit.
it means they are busy as fuck and doing well.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" 1953
it means they are busy as fuck and doing well.
:alien:
holy chit! blast from the past!
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
it means they are busy as fuck and doing well.
where u been hiding?
Hell for leather
Should be "he'll bent for leather".
Nope. Hell for leather and hell bent for leather are both sayings.
where u been hiding?
had to take a few years off riding because of successive injuries, so i was like fuck biking. then doc made crosscountry riding part of my PT, but i cant have one without the other. so here i am.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" 1953
Nope. Hell for leather and hell bent for leather are both sayings.
The first must be an abbreviation of the second, since it is meaningless otherwise. They both mean "balls to the wall"!
Pilot term. Ball of the throttle control is against front of cockpit thus ball to the wall. Now Wtf does cockpit mean?
Cars - drive it to the nuts. Gas pedal would go down as far as an adjustable nut on the floorboard.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Stamp
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
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