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(verb) to work very hard

Example Sentence:

A: Why aren’t you working?
B: What do you mean? Every day, I bend over backwards to get the job done!

I keep bending over backwards to lose weight, and I’ve only lost 5 pounds!

Your mother and I have bent over backwards to help you!

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Similar idioms:

  1. break one’s back
  2. stitch in time saves nine
  3. work one’s fingers to the bone
  4. work like a dog
  5. pull one’s weight
  6. break down
  7. work up to
  8. have a frog in one’s throat
  9. keep one’s nose to the grindstone
  10. practice what one preaches
  11. what have you got to lose?

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