When someone does something with a full effort,  no holding back… sometimes they day that they are going  “balls to the wall.”

How did that ever get to mean that?

As a man,  that saying conjures images of intense pain, not a full out effort. Maybe if it’s someone else’s balls,  and I had to torture them without holding back.

I want to have a talk with “they” that make up the sayings, as in “well,  you know what ‘they’ say.”

I think “they” got this one wrong.