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A list of phrases related to the word "effort"...
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A big ask
A hands turn
A true professional
All out
An abortive
attempt
An uphill battle
Armed
struggle
Asking for
trouble
At a push
At a stretch
At full stretch
Beads of sweat
Beaver away at
Bend over backwards to help
Blood, sweat and tears
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Boom or bust
Borrow
trouble
Break your back
Break your balls
Break your neck
Buck up your ideas
Buckle under the
strain
Burst a blood vessel
Bust a gut
Bust your balls
Bust your buttons
Bust your chops
Clean up your act
Dig deep
Do it the hard way
Do the hard yards ( Put in the hard work necessary for success )
Do your bit
Do your damnedest
Do your worst
Don't just sit there
Don't
trouble
your pretty little head about it
Donkey work
Double
trouble
Double, double
toil
and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Elbow grease
Flat out
Flat out like a lizard drinking
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains ( Thomas Carlyle quotation )
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Get down to business
Get stuck in
Get your ass into gear
Get your hands dirty
Get your teeth into
Give it all you've got
Give it plenty
Give it some wellie
Give it the old college try
Give it your best shot
Go for broke
Go the extra mile
Go to great lengths
Hang in there
Here comes
trouble
Hurry hard
I Knew You Were
Trouble
( Taylor Swift song )
I have nothing to offer but blood
toil
tears and sweat ( Winston Churchill quotation )
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If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
If it kills me
In
trouble
Jump through hoops
Knock yourself out
Knuckle down to
Last ditch effort
Lean into it
Let the train take the
strain
( British Rail advertising slogan )
Lick into shape
Life and death
struggle
Looking for
trouble
Make a good fist of it
Make
trouble
Move heaven and earth
No challenge too great
No pain, no gain
Nose for
trouble
One's level best
Pain barrier
Play to win
Pull your weight
Push the boundaries
Put in the hard yards
Put some muscle into it
Put your back into it
Put your hand to the plough
Reach new heights
Rest up ( take a break from one's arduous
efforts
)
Revenge mission ( an
attempt
to seek active retribution )
Roll up your sleeves
Root hog or die
Run yourself ragged
Shoulder to the grindstone
Slave away at
Spade work
Stir up
trouble
Straighten up and fly right
Strain
every nerve
Strike out swinging ( A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort )
Sweat blood
The labours of Hercules
The little engine that could
This is a local shop, we'll have no
trouble
here ( A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen )
Trouble
and strife ( Cockney rhyming slang for wife )
Trouble
in Paradise
Trouble
with a capital T
Tummy
trouble
Under your own steam
Up to your neck in
trouble
We aim to please
Wear yourself out
When I find myself in times of
trouble
Mother Mary comes to me ( Beatles song lyric )
Work like a Trojan
Work like a beaver
Work like a dog
Work one's fingers to the bone
Work your ass off
Work your butt off
Working all the hours God sends
Working party