"put the hammer down" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> the hammer down"
      },
      "expansion": "put the hammer down (third-person singular simple present puts the hammer down, present participle putting the hammer down, simple past and past participle put the hammer down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, C. W. McCall, Convoy",
          "text": "I says, \"Pig Pen this here's the Rubber Duck and I'm about to put the hammer down.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Meat Loaf (singer) and Jim Steinman (lyrics), \"Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are\"",
          "text": "She always put the top up and the hammer down."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drive quickly; to step on the accelerator."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_the_hammer_down-en-verb-s7E9jwbo",
      "links": [
        [
          "drive",
          "drive"
        ],
        [
          "quickly",
          "quickly"
        ],
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "accelerator",
          "accelerator"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To drive quickly; to step on the accelerator."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-au-put_the_hammer_down.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the hammer down"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the hammer down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> the hammer down"
      },
      "expansion": "put the hammer down (third-person singular simple present puts the hammer down, present participle putting the hammer down, simple past and past participle put the hammer down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, C. W. McCall, Convoy",
          "text": "I says, \"Pig Pen this here's the Rubber Duck and I'm about to put the hammer down.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Meat Loaf (singer) and Jim Steinman (lyrics), \"Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are\"",
          "text": "She always put the top up and the hammer down."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drive quickly; to step on the accelerator."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drive",
          "drive"
        ],
        [
          "quickly",
          "quickly"
        ],
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "accelerator",
          "accelerator"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To drive quickly; to step on the accelerator."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "audio": "En-au-put the hammer down.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-au-put_the_hammer_down.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the hammer down"
}