your level best

your level best
your level best phrase
if you do your level best, you try to do something as well as you can

I tried my level best to persuade her to stay.

Thesaurus: hard work and effortsynonym
Main entry: level

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your level best
: your best effort at doing something

He tried his level best to win the race. [=he tried as hard as he could to win the race]

She did her level best to please her mother. [=she tried very hard to please her mother]

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Main Entry:level

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • your level best — if you do your level best, you try to do something as well as you can I tried my level best to persuade her to stay …   English dictionary

  • do your level best — do (your) (level) best to try very hard. Tickets are hard to get, but I ll do my best to find you one. Work is easy you show up in the morning, do your level best for eight hours, then you go home …   New idioms dictionary

  • do your level best — do (your) level best to try very hard to do something. Tickets are quite hard to come by but I ll do my level best to get you one. (often + to do something) …   New idioms dictionary

  • do your level best (to do something) — do/try your level ˈbest (to do sth) idiom to do as much as you can to try to achieve sth Main entry: ↑levelidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • try your level best (to do something) — do/try your level ˈbest (to do sth) idiom to do as much as you can to try to achieve sth Main entry: ↑levelidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • level best — If you do your level best, you make every possible efforrt to do something as well as you can …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • level best — n. one’s very best effort. □ I will do my level best to find your husband. □ Don’t go to a whole lot of trouble. Your level best is good enough …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • do level best — do (your) (level) best to try very hard. Tickets are hard to get, but I ll do my best to find you one. Work is easy you show up in the morning, do your level best for eight hours, then you go home …   New idioms dictionary

  • do level best — do (your) level best to try very hard to do something. Tickets are quite hard to come by but I ll do my level best to get you one. (often + to do something) …   New idioms dictionary

  • dead level best — If you try your dead level best,  you try as hard as you possibly could to do something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

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