Most of us don’t kick into high gear until something goes wrong.
"We need to put this investigation into high gear, ramp it up," said Jack.
But suddenly, in the early 1970s, that growth kicked into high gear with the appearance of a new imaging option: computerized tomography, or CT.
He switched into high gear -- first, gritting his teeth, he began to translate the introduction to Richthofen's China, which would be about three hundred thousand characters long when finished.
The Sunni Arab insurgency is also running in high gear.
The high gear of the recoiler is driven by a single motor with the others idling along with it.
But it appears Brazil is finally ready to shift the fight into high gear in January, after raising reserve requirements early last month.
Their work is moving along in high gear.
Then, while Wally was still being brought down from the tower, standard emergency procedures went into high gear.
It is unknown, for instance, what Putin thinks of the judicial changes that Medvedev has launched, but they are in high gear, sources in the Kremlin and in the establishment confirm.
An advertising campaign for the new product promptly moved into high gear.
The work was finished at high gear.
Faced with six months 'notice, we switched into high gear and began collecting data about premises in various buildings in selected districts we were considering for our relocation.
KCG type high gear pump with relief, can prevent the overload of damage to the pump and motor.
When the next set of gears are used, the car picks up speed. Finally, when the car is moving easily, the gears are shifted again. We say then that the car is in the high gear.
The car could not go up the acclivity in high gear.
He exchanged high gear into low one when driving on a slope
