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flat-out

[ flat-out ]

adjective

Informal.
  1. moving or working at top speed or with maximum effort; all-out:

    a flat-out effort by all contestants.

  2. downright; thoroughgoing:

    Many of the paintings were flat-out forgeries.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of flat-out1

First recorded in 1925–30
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“Now, they are bringing partisan politics directly to the cafeteria table, threatening our children’s food security as a mechanism to force states to comply with a national ideological agenda. This is flat-out wrong.”

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For now, they look flat-out unbeatable.

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When an airport immigration officer once asked him flat-out if he was a Korean citizen, he evaded the question and told her both of his parents were American — which was the truth.

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“The new Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees,” the document flat-out directs.

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Dude has been flat-out laughing in the high-profile attorney’s face after she filed a lawsuit alleging that he and his entourage rode up on a scooter-riding photographer and whacked the guy with an SUV door.

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