"balls to the wall"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

There are also a few Google Books examples of "haul [the] balls" in about
the same sense.

It would be nice to have at least one example of "push the ball[s] forward"
or some such thing ... but maybe without a rhyme the phrase won't fly ....

-- Doug Wilson


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