Full-fledged, adv. phr. (venery).—Ripe for defloration.
Full-gutted, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Stout; swag-bellied.
Full of emptiness, adv. phr. (common).—Utterly void.
Full on, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Set strongly in a given direction, especially in an obscene sense: e.g., full on for it or full on for one = ready and willing au possible.
At full chisel, adv. phr. (American).—At full speed; with the greatest violence or impetuousity. Also full drive; full split. Cf. hickety split; ripping; staving along; two-thirty, etc.
In full blast, swing, etc., adv. phr. (colloquial).—In the height of success; in hot pursuit.
1859. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, 5 a.m., Part I. At five a.m. the publication of the Times newspaper is, to use a north-country mining expression, in ‘full blast.’
1884. Daily News, Feb. 9, p. 5, col. 2. If he visit New York in that most pleasant season, the autumn, he will find that the ‘fall’ trade is ‘in full blast.’
1888. Daily Telegraph, 17 Nov. By half-past ten o’clock the smoking-room was in full swing.
In full dig, adv. phr. (common).—On full pay. [[85]]