give it the gun

"I'll give it the gun with the radio controls when I'm ready."

At a few hundred feet from the ground the pilot gave it the gun, but still he continued to circle low over the plain.

Diana switched to 'plane' combination and gave it the gun.

"As soon as that craft is in the center of the target, give it the gun."

"He'll give it the gun when he gets farther down," commented Wendell.

"Wherever you're going," I said simply, and she spun around in her saddle and gave it the gun.

"Give it the gun, Della," Mason said, "and cut in front of the street car."

After flying for 25 minutes Nesbitt landed, later remarking that it felt so right he decided to "give it the gun".

He evicted the cadet driver from the reconnaissance car and ran it down the ramp into the causeway, then headed north and gave it the gun.

I put her in gear and gave it the gun, threaded my way through the maze and out to the highway, turned right on 25A, keeping it slow.

This led to the association of rapid acceleration with "gunning," and to give it the gun was soon extended to automobiles, speedboats, and objects and matters nonmechanical.

give it the gun While giving their airplane engines all the gas they could handle, World War I combat pilots would open fire on the enemy with their machine guns.

They have to head the ship for a place you can't see and they have to put the ship there just under the speed of light and they have to give it the gun at just the right world point.

Better hit it up pretty fast and get home before the brat got cranky - She lined up on City Hall by flywheel and stereo, spun on that axis to get the sun out of her eyes, clutched her gyros, and gave it the gun.