trying

Related to trying: trying times
See:
  • (one) can't win for trying
  • bad times
  • be like trying to find a needle in a haystack
  • don't quit trying
  • keep (on) trying
  • Keep trying
  • like looking for a needle in a haystack
  • like looking for/trying to find a needle in a haystack
  • like trying to nail Jell-O to a cross
  • like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree
  • like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall
  • like trying to scratch your ear with your elbow
  • not for (a) lack of trying
  • not for (a) want of trying
  • not for lack/want of trying
  • try (one's) fortune
  • try (one's) hand (at something)
  • try (one's) luck
  • try (one's) patience
  • try (one's) utmost
  • try a fall with (someone)
  • try back
  • try conclusions with (someone)
  • try every trick in the book
  • try for (something)
  • try it on
  • try it on with (one)
  • try on
  • try out
  • try the patience of (someone)
  • trying times
  • What's the good of (doing something)?
  • What's the use (of doing something)?
  • without half trying
References in periodicals archive
He went up there and stood up there for like an hour trying to psyche himself up to do it, and kept dropping in and jumping off the board.
Danny Way
What emerges is a picture of uncertain men trying to make the best of things.
Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America
It finally hit me one morning when I came down to my studio, trying to find a parking spot, and there were movie trucks in my way.
In Conversation: John Baldessari & Jeremy Blake
How does the wisdom of Yoda apply to health care systems trying to rise above the health care status quo?
Why do health systems flop with CPOE? Ask Yoda: the "Yoda factor" is the difference between "trying to do CPOE" and "doing CPOE."
Thus, if we are trying to lead a good life, we can know the voice of God by the peace, joy, hope, and love of life we experience.
Divining messages: how to discern the voice of God from all the other noise we hear
"She kept trying to get me to quit, but I couldn't," Aimee Elizabeth recalls.
THE CUTTING EDGE
You're trying to calm down a friend who has worked himself into a fury at a driver in another car who has cut dangerously close in front of him.
What's your emotional intelligence?
At signal, they hop around while trying to make opponent fall down.
The games wrestlers play
Her strategy at auditions is to pretend that she is performing onstage rather than trying to convince herself and others that she is right for the position.
Turning out for Twyla: how to survive a national audition
We each gave a candid and complete view of what we were trying to accomplish.
Thank you, Camp Sloane
So for the next two days we gave the last tricks everything we had, while trying our best to get some Highest, Longest, Most contenders.
Triple threat
Your daring spirit tempts you toward trying the offbeat.
Scope out your Signature Scent
That's the kind of narcissism or megalomania that I was trying to depict.
SPURNING TRICKS
LeShan's book helped me get over the hurdle of resistance to trying meditation again.
How to be viewed as a Sage in your elder years. (Career Management)
It was the face of a man who, however awkwardly, was trying to understand something foreign, different, uncomfortable.
Caught in the cross currents