might and main
Example Sentences
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A European Commission spokesman refused to speculate on the latest talks on Thursday, but said EU negotiators were working "might and main" to deliver a deal for Europe's consumers and companies.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2025
What a paradox: This city, and the feds, are now trying with might and main to find housing for its veterans — in effect to re-create a barracks that thousands of veterans had called home.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
And who should it be that Charles de Gaulle, 74, hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main till overwhelming victory, and then offering the hand of friendship to the vanquished.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had concentrated his attention with all his muddled might and main on the lesser instead of the greater plague-spot.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
