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put your back into something

to use a lot of physical effort to try to do something. You could dig this plot in an afternoon if you put your back into it.

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But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context Besides, Vasili Andreevich was putting his things on, so there was nothing for it but for Nikita to get up too, put back into the sugar-basin the lump of sugar he had nibbled all round, wipe his perspiring face with the skirt of his sheepskin, and go to put on his overcoat. Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context More results

References in classic literature

But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context

Besides, Vasili Andreevich was putting his things on, so there was nothing for it but for Nikita to get up too, put back into the sugar-basin the lump of sugar he had nibbled all round, wipe his perspiring face with the skirt of his sheepskin, and go to put on his overcoat.

Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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