In the earliest days of steam engines, Watt style engines and their successors used a centrifugal governor to control speed. Possible etymology: The original phrase is actually hinted to in the expression 'with a full head of steam'.Those motorcyclists took that steep hill balls out! You just have to go balls out to win this game. with reckless abandon and extreme courage 'head-long' 'with a head full of steam' 'giving it one's all'.See more words with the same meaning: wild, ridiculous, extreme.Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA See more words with the same meaning: brave.Citation from 'Bill And Gary's Excellent Adventure', Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site. 'tener cojones' in Spanish.) You've got balls to do something like that! That dude must have enormous balls! You've got a lot of balls showing your face in here. (The 'having testicles' = 'bravado' relationship exists in other languages, e.g. Having large ' balls' or many ' balls' implies even more bravado. In this sense, ' balls' still means 'testicles,' but 'having balls' implies bravado.

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Submitted by James O from Bluefield, WV, USA See more words with the same meaning: very, extremely, completely, in a grand way.See more words with the same meaning: hard, confusing, difficult, a problem.See more words with the same meaning: exclamations (list of).Speaker A: Did you get the job? Speaker B: No, I'm balls.

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