level best

Idioms and Phrases

see under do one's best .

Example Sentences

My siblings all managed their level best to help but failed to see the daily load that crushed me.

From The Daily Beast

“During the McCain campaign, I tried my dead-level best to make sure nobody knew anything,” he recounts.

From The Daily Beast

He was humble and patient, an earnest man simply trying, by golly, to do his level best for others.

From The Daily Beast

Nevertheless, President Bush, true to his campaign pledge, did his level best keep his foot on the pedal.

From The Daily Beast

I'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.

From Project Gutenberg

Their tongues and loud Rad ram's-horns do their level best to win it, Mum.

From Project Gutenberg

There's a breakdown gang doing its level best to get us clear.

From Project Gutenberg

But they were doing their level best to save the vessel: that was plain.

From Project Gutenberg

If you'll pay me ten dollars a week, Mr. Dart, I'll do my level best to earn it.

From Project Gutenberg