lean over backwards

Example Sentences

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So they’ll certainly lean over backwards to get a decision out as soon as they possibly can.

From The Guardian

“Our tendency to ‘lean over backwards’ to rule against a homosexual is simply a manifestation of the revulsion which homosexuality inspires in the normal person,” a CSC supervisor wrote in a 1964 memo typical of the era.

From Washington Post

“It’s just too fraught. And the week after a pilot is burned alive, in a video shown, you don’t lean over backwards to be philosophical about the sins of the fathers. You have to deal with the issue that’s in front of you or don’t deal with it at all. Talk about faith.”

From Washington Times

He added, “Our tendency to ‘lean over backwards’ to rule against a homosexual is simply a manifestation of the revulsion which homosexuality inspires in the normal person.”

From New York Times

Then he begun to lean over backwards, and finally, when everything was set, he threw a flip-flap and hit that tank a dead center without hurtin' himself a bit.

From Project Gutenberg