bust a gut (doing something do something)

bust a gut (doing something do something)
bust a ˈgut (doing sth/to do sth) idiom
(informal) to make a great effort to do sth

It's a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve.

Main entry:bustidiom

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