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                            Phrase(s): put the pedal to the metal 
Sl. to press a car’s accelerator to the floor; to drive very fast.  •  Let’s go, man. Put the pedal to the metal.  •  Put the pedal to the metal, and we’ll make up some lost time.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs