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"Put backbone into" nghĩa là gì?
19 Feb, 2020
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"Put (one's) backbone into" = Đặt xương sống/nghị lực vào việc gì -> Gắng hết sức để làm việc gì.
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A new book on Prime Ministers by Andrew Gimson describes how Sir Alec Douglas-Home was rejected by the Army in 1940 due to a spinal condition which required grafting bone from his shin (cẳng chân) on to his vertebrae (cột sống). He later joked that surgeons had ‘achieved the impossible – and put backbone into a politician’.
You may also spot Trevor Wright, the man behind William Creek and Wrightsair, the small scenic flight business that flies visitors to Lake Eyre. You can tell that he has put his backbone into this little place over the last 30 years, gradually taking over all facets of the town like a real-life game of Monopoly. But unlike Mr Pennybags, Trevor is as hardworking as they come.
Although not avowedly socialist in outlook, the leadership of the strike was by no means unaware of the political significance of what they were doing. At the Limerick May Day in 1918 one speaker, RP O’Connor, claimed to applause that he supposed they would be called Bolsheviks because they extended greetings to the Russian workers, but Irishmen could claim that as a small nation they had put backbone into any part of the world they were in.
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