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"text": "1957, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences.\n\"Even so, all six subjects immediately pegged the needle in their first attempt to reach midscale.\""
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"ref": "1989 December, Popular Mechanics, volume 166, number 12",
"text": "If that pegs the needle, then the wiring between the sender and gauge is bad.",
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"To cause the hand of a dial indicator to reach the highest measurement, due to reaching the maximum measurable speed, pressure, etc."
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"ref": "2008 August 22, Nick Barbaro, “The Luv Doc”, in The Austin Chronicle",
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"ref": "2014, John E. Conway, Buckrammer's Tales: The Continuing Catboat Summers Adventures",
"text": "Thus I suspected that a trip to Chelsea might peg the needle on the religious experience meter but if biodiesel one wanted, that is where one got it.",
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{
"text": "2016, May 28, Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY Sports.\n\"The returning talent figures to be pegging the needle on the hype meter once again.\""
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"To achieve the maximum level of something, to max out, to pull out all the stops."
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"(idiomatic) To achieve the maximum level of something, to max out, to pull out all the stops."
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"ref": "2014, John E. Conway, Buckrammer's Tales: The Continuing Catboat Summers Adventures",
"text": "Thus I suspected that a trip to Chelsea might peg the needle on the religious experience meter but if biodiesel one wanted, that is where one got it.",
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