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
In Manhattan last week at their semi-annual International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection, anti-vivisectionists displayed their might and main.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is played with might and main by a typical stock company group, unknown to Broadway, who know how to send their lines booming across the footlights as if kicking a field goal.
From Time Magazine Archive
After she left, we continued to churn away with all our might and main, but the butter wouldna come, and since that day the cows have refused to give us any milk.”
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by Davies, R. Rice
