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词组 pull out all the stops
释义

pull out all the stops make a very great effort; go to elaborate lengths.

☞ The stops referred to here are those of an organ. Although this is an early 20th-century expression, Matthew Arnold, in the Preface to Essays in Criticism (1865) refers to an attempt on his behalf 'to pull out a few more stops in that…somewhat narrow-toned organ, the modern Englishman'.

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