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last-ditch effort



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Idioms and Phrases

A desperate final attempt, as in We're making a last-ditch effort to finish on time . This expression alludes to the military sense of last ditch , “the last line of defense.” Its figurative use dates from the early 1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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