at full tilt

短语

全速地, 用力地

发音

AU

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    At full speed; very quickly.

    习语

    Don't go racing around corners at full tilt or you'll hit someone.

词源

Recorded c. 1600, perhaps from the interpretation of tilt (“a joust”) as derived from "leaning" into an attack, presumably a folk etymology, as tilt in late Middle English meant “a covering of coarse cloth, an awning” and referred to the barrier separating the combatants in a joust.

来源:wiktionary