put one's back into it

Make a strenuous effort, as in If you put your back into that report, you'll soon be done. This idiom alludes to physical labor involving the strength of one's back. It was first recorded in 1882.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rosaleen	ROZ-ə-leen	English (Rare)
Siemen	SEE-mən (Dutch)	Dutch, Frisian
Passang	-	Tibetan, Bhutanese
Ness (2)	NES	English
Alycia	ə-LIS-yə, ə-LIS-ə, ə-LISH-ə	English
Ursula	UR-sə-lə (English), UR-syə-lə (English), OOR-soo-lah (Finnish)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman