throw one's weight behind

verb

To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse.

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Meanings

verbthrow one's weight behind (third-person singular simple present throws one's weight behind, present participle throwing one's weight behind, simple past threw one's weight behind, past participle thrown one's weight behind)

present singular third person throws one's weight behind · participle present throwing one's weight behind · past threw one's weight behind · participle past thrown one's weight behind

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse.

    They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces

    2015, Rev. Stephen Jumaat Abdul-Razaq, Islam: The Armageddon Bomb
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    Rowley called the federation branch “crazy” and “perverse” for throwing its weight behind Di Maria’s judicial review, painting the federation as the roadblock to much-needed reform.

    2025 April 5, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer
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