level best
noun/ˌlɛvl̩ ˈbɛst/UK
Etymology
From level (“well balanced; even, steady”) + best.
- inherited from *batistaz✻
- inherited from betst
- inherited from best
Definitions
The very best that one can do.
- Then came a pause, each man aiming his level best, as indeed one is likely to do when one knows that life itself depends upon the shot.
- Val walked out behind his mother, chin squared, eyelids drooped, doing his level best to despise everybody.
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