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It means 'go buy parachute pants' and it was embedded in our cultural consciousness in the early nineties via a hidden lyric in a MC Hammer song.
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It means to tread heavily on the accelerator of a vehicle. I believe, but cannot prove at this very moment, that it originated in the freight transport industry among truckers. It is part of CB radio speech. For an example, see the lyrics of the country song 'The White Knight." http://www.lyricstime.com/maggard-cletus-white-knight-lyrics.html See also: http://cdbaby.com/cd/chrissprague
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I was thinking it may have originated from blacksmithing... When you put the hammer down, you assault something with a fierceness
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to drive quickly; to step on the accelerator http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/put_the_hammer_down To move at speed, quickly proceed. "I was hammering down the motorway at about 160 mph and this geezer onna rice boi bike hammers past me!" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=put+the+hammer+down go faster, floor it, pedal to the metal " If we's goin from New York to LA in two days, you got to put de hammer down." http://bits.westhost.com/idioms/id491.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLcT4gQdylE Put The Hammer Down The old adage is, any halfway decent prosecutor can convince a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. And that old saw may just be true because this week a grand jury in Travis County, Texas indicted a hammer. Not just any hammer but "The Hammer." House Majority leader Tom DeLay was indicted on a single count of criminal conspiracy and multiple counts of "cranky old man" and "doesn't work well with others." http://www.buzzflash.com/durst/05/10/dur05016.html Troops Put the Hammer Down in Iraq http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SS_031105_Hammer,00.html
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