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college try noun a sincere effort, despite the likelihood of failure US, 1918 Especially common as “the old college try”.- He thought of everything in terms of the old college try, and he had told students to attack their studies, their sports, religious waverings, sexual maladjustments, physical handicaps and a constellation of other problems with the old college try. — John Knowles, A Separate Peace, p. 174, 1954
- WAYNE: You can’t escape like this. MICKEY: Probably not, but we’re gonna give it the old college try. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
- You gave it the old college try. No hard feelings. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 44, 1997
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