throw one's weight behind
verbDefinitions
To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence
To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse.
- They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces
- Rowley called the federation branch “crazy” and “perverse” for throwing its weight behind Di Maria’s judicial review, painting the federation as the roadblock to much-needed reform.
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