make every effort

verb

To do one's utmost

“The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.”

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Meanings

verb
  1. idiomaticTo do one's utmost

    The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.

    4 more examples

    Such contrivances are of the greatest beauty, for they unite all that could be desired, nay, all that appeared wholly ununitable; they complicate, and yet carry the solution in themselves; they produce restlessness, and yet lead to repose; they succeed in reaching the goal, while appearing to be making every effort to keep from it.

    1914, Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief), The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III

    Passers and would-be passers make every effort to be convincing in their chosen gender role […]

    2014, Risa Bear, Homecomings, page 69

    When there is a known allergenic food factor every effort should be made either to eliminate exposure to it, or, preferably, to deallergize the patient by means of a Propeptan diet.

    2015, Erich Urbach, Skin Diseases Nutrition and Metabolism, page 424

    […] to live as normally as possible while making every effort to learn to live the hurtless, kindly and unselfish life […]

    2015, Max Freedom Long, The Huna Code in Religions, page 191
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