So many of them took pictures, of themselves and of me, that we ran flat out of black-and-white film the second day out, and there wasn′t a Queen Mary necktie to be had in the shops after we left the port.

Avoid Flat-Out Opposites
The slob vs. the neatnik. The artist vs. the precision-freak. The freethinker vs. the tightass. Liberal vs. conservative. Jock vs. nerd. David vs. Goliath. Good vs. evil. Beauty and the Beast. Jekyll and Hyde.

I put up with a lot from them: sexist and racist jokes, routine descriptions of masculinist sexploitation, flat-out ridicule for my feminist views.

I know we are all flat out. That is the way it is. We are flat out, and it becomes a way of life.

flat out (like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing

After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath.

I was already sliding and too dedicated to change my line and just went flat out completely off the course.

When antelope are running flat out, they resemble very rapidly departing dots; some say they can hit 60 mph.

I was half way down the strip when I heard a speedboat and ran flat out back to the landing spot.

The company's growth in the rail freight market, with a mix of new-to-rail and contract gains, has led to it working flat out.

She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out.

He was flat out furious when his car was stolen.

Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it.

If, on the other hand, you simply deny flat out that you can give a metaphysical account of the concept “woman,” on the grounds that women are not essentially like one another in any respect— a position that, it′s important to notice, entails a commitment to your thinking that the idea of giving such an account is at least coherent— then you leave yourself with a problem about how to justify a politics based on the oppression of women.

“You′re gonna die,” he flat-out told Arfons.

Sometimes an eagerly promoted product turns out to be a joke — and sometimes it′s just flat out dangerous to life, limb, or commerce.

2006, Tony Rossi, Critique by guest commentator: Dr. Tony Rossi, Stephen Hagan, Australia's Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100, page 129,
The media (in all its forms) has been known to stoop to even lower levels by flat out abusing non-whites such as the Bulletin's little description of Patrick Bowman reported above and then the Referee's self-congratulatory note that Evans (the Balmain nigger ped) had found gainful employment (at which he was 'very handy' rather than competent or skilled) and had ceased to waste everybody's time with his running.

But I was disappointed and really unhappy with myself because I′d given in to a gut reaction that was flat-out wrong.

His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for "one of 'em yere flat-outs."

The would-be daredevils are mercifully prevented from going too fast by strategically placed flat-outs.

The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.

1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 2015, Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books, Enhanced Media, page 413,
I see myself there warn't no sense in the tale, to chop square off that way before it come to anything, but I warn't going to say so, because I could see Tom was souring up pretty fast over the way it flatted out […] .

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