do one's best

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Also, do one's level best or one's damnedest . Perform as well as one can, do the utmost possible, as in I'm doing my best to balance this statement , or She did her level best to pass the course , or He did his damnedest to get done in time . The first term dates from the 16th century, but the addition of level , here meaning “very,” occurred only in the mid-1800s; the variant dates from the late 1800s.

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