last ditch effort Idiom, Proverb

make every effort

do everything possible, bend over backwards Our employees make every effort to please our customers.

make an all-out effort

Idiom(s): make an all-out effort

Theme: EFFORT

to make a thorough and energetic effort.
• Sally made an all-out effort to get to class on time.
• In my job, I have to make an all-out effort every day.

last-ditch effort

Idiom(s): last-ditch effort

Theme: EFFORT

a final effort; the last possible attempt.
• I made one last-ditch effort to get her to stay.
• It was a last-ditch effort. I didn't expect it to work.

all-out effort

Idiom(s): all-out effort

Theme: THOROUGHNESS

a very good and thorough effort.
• We need an all-out effort to get this job done on time.
• The government began an all-out effort to reduce the federal budget.

all-out effort|all|effort

n. A great and thorough effort at solving a given problem. The President is making an all-out effort to convince Congress to pass the pending bill on health care.

effort

effort
see all out; last-ditch effort.

last-ditch effort

A final accomplishment or advance to break a botheration or abstain abortion or defeat, abnormally afterwards a alternation of failures or setbacks. The home aggregation is ascent one last-ditch accomplishment in the final abnormal of the bold to try to force an overtime showdown. In a last-ditch accomplishment to abstain a government shutdown, assembly has pushed advanced a new spending bill meant to bung the debt beam for addition year.Learn more: effort

*last-ditch effort

Fig. a final effort; the aftermost accessible attempt. (*Typically: be ~; accept ~; accomplish ~.) I fabricated one last-ditch accomplishment to get her to stay. It was a last-ditch effort. I didn't apprehend it to work.Learn more: effort

last-ditch effort

A atrocious final attempt, as in We're authoritative a last-ditch accomplishment to accomplishment on time. This announcement alludes to the aggressive faculty of last ditch, "the aftermost band of defense." Its allegorical use dates from the aboriginal 1800s. Learn more: effort

a ˌlast-ditch ˈstand/atˈtempt/ˈeffort

a final advance to abstain defeat: They are authoritative a last-ditch angle to save the company. ♢ This is a last-ditch advance to stop the strike. Ditch in this argot refers to a continued approach congenital to avert an breadth adjoin attack.Learn more: attempt, effort, stand

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