good effort

While “smart” is impossible to exactly quantify, we gave it a good effort.

It shows us, secondly, how that encouraging maxim may become true, That no good effort is ever lost.

The coach, with a good effort on the part of the horses, got under way, and rumbled off towards Tewkesbury.

They had begun to look upon him as an ordinary mortal, making a fairly good effort to ward off fate, and nothing more.

It prevents the promotion of employees in the Secret Service, and this further discourages good effort.

"Otherwise it will be a good effort thrown away," and he grinned.