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Putting the Pedal to the Metal

Yesterday I was putting the pedal to the metal with my toaster. Today i'll do it with my flatscreen TV.

pedal to the metal 

When the accelerator is pushed so far it cant move any more- in some cars it hits a metal bar, or the end of the footwell (which is hopefully made of metal).

Hence the term pedal to the metal. Obviously if you have the accelerator all the way fowards youre gonna be gathering speed...or going fairly fast.
Crap! Cops, 6 o'clock, pedal to the metal Jerry!

pedal to the metal 

1. when a vehicle is going as fast as it can
2. something you say when you want someone to go faster in a car, see hammer down.
1. That car was going pedal to the metal.
2. Let's go, pedal to the metal!
pedal to the metal by fizzle April 5, 2004

pedal to the metal 

When one pushes the gas pedal to the floor, making the vehicle burst to its highest possible speed. Generally done on straightaways or during drag races, accompanied by a burnout.
He put he pedal to the metal and left that toyota in the dust.

Pedal to the metal 

for Brazilians (cariocas specially and often) - to shoot everything that moves as an order to kill
"zero-one, I think I can kill two rabbits with one strike here... "
"That's 100%, 14?"
"'Skull' my captain."
"Pedal to the metal."
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
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