run on all cylinders

We're in the part of the season where everything has to be running on all cylinders.

An empire so large might be expected to have trouble running on all cylinders at once.

"When we're running on all cylinders, we could get 14 or 15 hits a night."

"While the economy may not be about to turn down, it clearly isn't running on all cylinders.

When we're running on all cylinders, we can beat any team."

He wanted to stand by Sars, but she'd proved that she wasn't running on all cylinders.

He was running on all cylinders when he left here."

"To play that caliber competition, you have to be running on all cylinders.

This, he said, is "history running on all cylinders."

To the casual visitor, it certainly looks as if the foundry is running on all cylinders.

Wal-Mart appears to be running on all cylinders.

At the moment, I'm constantly running on all cylinders, so I have less energy left over for the workouts.

Everything is starting to run on all cylinders."

"No." I was really running on all cylinders.

31 Aug 2010 How to run on all cylinders

Because the current occupant of Nathan's God Game was not running on all cylinders.

Economies around the world were running on all cylinders, and the Wall Street view was that inaction in Washington could do more good than harm.

He was a man of immense charm and charisma, and Coke still seemed to be running on all cylinders when he died.

While providing broad statistical evidence of a long-awaited turnaround, Port Authority officials said the region's economic engine was hardly running on all cylinders.

Except for their 15-14 loss in St. Louis and the 24-21 loss in Philadelphia last week, they never seemed to be running on all cylinders.

The Knicks, who have beaten the hapless Hawks 10 consecutive times at the Garden, finally appear to be running on all cylinders.

But, he added, "the hard part is we won't know until other companies report how much of it was the industry and how much was 3Com running on all cylinders."

At a steady speed on a flat surface, four cylinders may suffice, but if you nudge the gas pedal the truck is running on all cylinders again.

But the widespread declines tended to reduce the importance of individual country issues and to provide a reminder that the engines of economic growth are not running on all cylinders anywhere.

First of all, a bottler bonded in any way to the Coca-Cola Company ends up looking good, simply because Coke is, as the saying goes, running on all cylinders.