TIL going "balls to the walls" originates from aviation lingo - eviltoast

I never knew and got curious and looked it up. I guess it makes more sense than slamming your testicals against the wall.

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    2 days ago

    Patrick O’Brian has a bunch of opinions about these. “The devil to pay” was spreading pitch on, or paying, the hard-to-reach seam between deck and hull called the devil. At loggerheads means fighting with the long poles with a hot iron ball on the end , or loggerheads, used to heat pitch.