full blast
At full capacity.
With all the research money at their disposal, the new computer firm was going ahead full blast.
have the last laugh
get the last laugh
To make someone seem foolish for having laughed at you.
Other schools laughed at us when our little team entered the state championship, but we had the last laugh when we won it.
he laughs best who laughs last
who laughs last laughs best
A person should go ahead with what he is doing and not worry when others laugh at him. When he succeeds he will enjoy laughing at them for being wrong more than they enjoyed laughing at him. A proverb.
Everyone laughed at Mary when she was learning to ski. She kept falling down. Now she is the state champion. He laughs best who laughs last.
last but not least
In the last place but not the least important.
Billy will bring sandwiches, Alice will bring cake, Susan will bring cookies, John will bring potato chips, and last but not least, Sally will bring the lemonade.
last ditch
last-ditch effort
last stand
The last place that can be defended; the last resort.
They will fight reform to the last ditch.
last lap
The final stage.
Although the trip had been very interesting, we were glad that we were on the last lap of our tiring journey.
last leg
Final stages of physical weakness before dying.
The poor old man was on his last leg in the nursing home.
The final stage of a journey.
The last leg of our round-the-world trip was Paris to Chicago.
last out
To be enough until the end of.
There is enough food in the house to last out the snowstorm.
Our candies won't last out the night.
To continue to the end of; continue to live after; live or go through.
The old man is dying; he won't last out the night.
This car will never last out the winter.