Flat Out

Definition: Flat Out

Flat Out

Adverb

1. In a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly".

2. At top speed; "ran flat out to catch the bus".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Flat Out

Failure

Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).

Shortcoming

Break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out, come to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.

Archie and the Riverdale gang were a pure and fun loving bunch. You cna't fing dysfunction in those comics, because they were just flat out wholesome (Chasing Amy; writing credit: Kevin Smith.)

Flat Out (1996)

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Books

• Flat Out (reference)

• Flat Out and Half Turned Over: Buddy Baker's Tales from Pit Road (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "flat out": be flat out ♦ be lying flat out ♦ drive flat out ♦ go flat out ♦ To flat out. Additional references.

Albanian

rresht (consecutively, file, line, line up, on end, range, rank, row, tier, together), pa ndërprerje (ceaselessly, without cease). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعب (failure, fatigue, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, lassitude, pan, punish, stress, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, toil, try, tucker, weariness, weary), ‏سير بالسرعة القصوى (go flat out), ‏بذل جهدا (exert oneself, go flat out, heave, stretch, take trouble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с всички сили (lustily), с пълна скорост. (various references)

Czech

na plné obrátky (at full blast). (various references)

French

faire tout son possible (go flat out), travailler d'arrache-pied (to work flat out), être complètement rétamé (be flat out), être étendu de tout son long (be lying flat out), être � sa vitesse de pointe (go flat out), être � plat (go flat out). (various references)

German

ausfahren (come out, deliver, drive flat out, drive round, extend, go for a ride, leave, leave a road, pull out, put to sea, rut, sail out, take for a ride, turn off, wear out). (various references)

Greek 

με όλη τη δύναμη. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעשות בכל �"כח (go flat out), ל�"תאמץ מעל ומעבר (go flat out, lean over backwards). (various references)

Hungarian

kudarcba fullad (fall through, to fail, to fall flat, to flat out, to go awry). (various references)

Italian

lavorare instancabilmente (to work flat out). (various references)

Manx

tappee erskyn insh, sheeynt (at full stretch, dilated, drawn out, extended, laid out, low-pitched, outstretched, procumbent, prolonged, prostrate, prostrated, rakish, sprained, sprawling, spreadeagled, strained, stretched, stretched out, tense, tense of moment, widespread). (various references)

Pig Latin

atflay outay.(various references)

Romanian

în plinã vitezã (at full tilt, full throttle). (various references)

Russian 

изо всех сил (at full tilt, for all one is worth, hammer and tongs, like grim death, tooth and nail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

punom brzinom (amain, speed: at full speed), bez uvijanja. (various references)

Spanish

esforzarse (be at pains, endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, go flat out, strain, strive, struggle, take trouble, try). (various references)

Swedish

falskt (falsely, feigned, sharp), för lågt, för fullt, maximalt, helt slut. (various references)

Turkish

yorgun olarak, gayretle (heartily, keenly, strenuously, with an effort), bitap durumda, büyük hızla. (various references)

Ukrainian

сходити нанівець (fade away), не справдити надій. (various references)

Misspellings

"Flat Out" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flatout. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: afoul, aloft, fault, float, flota, flout, total.

-3 letters: alto, auto, flat, foal, foul, loaf, loft, lota, lout, taut, toft, tofu, tola, tolu, tout, tufa, tuft.

-4 letters: aft, alt, att, fat, flu, fou, lat, lot, oaf, oat, oft, out, tao, tat, tau, tot, tut, uta.

-5 letters: al, at, fa, la, lo, of, ta, to, ut.

+2 letters: footfault, postfault, ultrasoft.

+3 letters: footfaults.

+4 letters: flirtatious, fluctuation, footfaulted, fortunately, multifactor, thiosulfate.

+5 letters: factitiously, fluctuations, flutterboard, footfaulting, thiosulfates.