To exert maximum effort.

Put the pedal to the metal, Jack, you need to finish before we leave in an hour.

The literal meaning is to press the gas pedal to the maximum extent; see our other entry for the figurative meaning this phrase has also come to mean

Dale was losing the race so he put the pedal to the metal and crossed the finish line first.

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