break one's back

反击反身反身术反目成仇

break one's back 的定义

  1. Also, break one's neck. Make a great effort, work very hard. For example, I've been breaking my back over this problem for the past week, or Don't break your neck to get there; we'll wait for you. Both versions of this expression, polite equivalents of break one's ass, transfer the literal fracture of one's back or neck to figurative exertion. However, break one's neck has the secondary connotation of proceeding with reckless speed, a sense also conveyed by the term breakneck pace. Originally this idiom alluded to literally breaking one's neck by rushing heedlessly along, but it has been used figuratively for the past 300 years. Also see break the back of.

break one's back 近义词

break one's back

等同于 struggle

更多break one's back例句

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  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.
  5. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
  10. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.