Do Your Best with This Car Expression — VOA Learning English
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
This program explores words and phrases in the English language.
And today we talk about an expression that comes from the world of vehicles and the engines that power them.
In an internal combustion engine, a cylinder is said to be firing when the fuel inside it is ignited, or lit. With that small, contained explosion, the engine starts and the car is ready to go! Most engines have four cylinders. Some very powerful vehicles have six or even eight cylinders!
That brings us to today’s expression: to fire on all cylinders.
When you are “firing on all cylinders,” you are working or functioning at the greatest possible level of…
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