open the throttle
Example Sentences
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There’s no point for an environmental patrol boat to get out in the deep channel and then just open the throttle up.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021
“Or devolving. I open the throttle on the poignant descriptions of the moon and the magazines come calling. This current stuff? Not so much.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
Behind a start line in a field in southern England, a group of drivers rev their engines, raring to open the throttle on noisy machines more used to cutting grass than racing across it.
From Reuters • May 2, 2016
Pilot Mclnnis suggested he sit in the plane, open the throttle.
From Time Magazine Archive
All I wanted to do was open the throttle and head downriver to where the others were searching.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
