put back to

put (one's) back to (something)

To put a great deal of effort into some action or activity. Come on, we need to get this car off the road. Put your back to it and push! It's clear that the legislators have put their backs to crafting a bill that will find support across party lines, as well as in the general population.
See also: back, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

put one's back (in)to something

 
1. Fig. to apply great physical effort to lift or move something. All right, you guys. Put your backs into moving this piano. You can lift it if you put your back to it.
2. Fig. to apply a lot of mental or creative effort to doing something. (From {1}.) If we put our backs to it, we can bake twelve dozen cookies today. The artist put his back into finishing the picture on time.
See also: back, put
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • put (one's) back to (something)
  • put (one's) back into (something)
  • put a cap on
  • put a cap on (something)
  • put (something) in with (someone or something)
  • put (something) on the block
  • put on the block
  • put off by
  • put back
  • put (something) on hold
References in classic literature
Tyne to Bankok; coals; put back to Falmouth leaky and with crew refusing duty.'
Youth A Narrative
And so he had been, I felt no doubt: only, as the time had been put back to the beginning of the tete-a-tete he referred to, the whole of it had passed into oblivion, if not into nothingness!
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