"balls to the wall"

[Joanne M. Despres]

That sure would make a lot more sense than what I thought.  I
wasn't familiar with this sense of "balls."  Thanks!

Joanne

On 13 Feb 2006, at 11:30, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Isn't this rather "balls"= "heck with"?
>
> Joel
>
> At 2/13/2006 11:00 AM, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
> >Here's a variant (in form and meaning) from Henry Roth's _A Diving
> >Rock on the Hudson_ (St. Martin's Press, 1995):
> >
> >But that sonofabitch of a house painter . . . . Nobody home, and
> >the plump pullet waggling her tail around.  Down with his overalls,
> >let the walls wait.  Balls for the walls, and pop goes the cherry-o
> >over his overalls. . . .
>
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