put backbone into someone encourage someone to behave resolutely.
☞ As a metaphor for 'firmness of character', backbone dates from the mid 19th century.
2004First Things Magazine We can look for no figure such as Niebuhr to put backbone into liberal Protestantism. It is dead and cannot be revived.
to the backbone in every respect; through and through.
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