level best


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Noun1.level best - the greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"
limit, bound, boundary - the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
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And Tom said he'd bet the quarreling was all Jubiter's fault, and he was going to be on hand the first time he got a chance, and see; and if it was so, he was going to do his level best to get Uncle Silas to turn him off.
He held his eye there as much as a minute; then he raised up and sighed, and says, 'Confound it, I don't seem to understand this thing, no way; however, I'll tackle her again.' He fetched another acorn, and done his level best to see what become of it, but he couldn't.
When I got up stairs I looked out at the window and see Tom doing his level best with the lightning-rod, but he couldn't come it, his hands was so sore.
All these useless regrets were getting me in a bad way; but at last I shook myself and tried to put such things out of my mind and take hold of conditions as they existed and do my level best to wrest victory from defeat.
Then came a pause, each of us aiming his level best, as indeed a man is likely to do when he knows that life itself depends upon the shot.
"I did my level best to leave you behind, but you wouldn't listen to me."
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life--that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living.
As traffic along Edsa worsens despite the imposition of a traffic scheme aimed at easing road congestion, Malacanang called on commuters to 'be patient', assuring them that the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is doing its 'level best.'
The PTI lawmaker said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is trying his level best to highlight the plight of Kashmiris at the international level.
She further said that the opposition tried its level best to remove Sadiq Sanjrani, but they miserably failed.
Summary: Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India] May 19 (ANI): Even as the citizens voted for the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls on Sunday, the Election Commission (EC) here tried their level best to include the differently-abled citizens into the electoral process.
Romeo does his level best to get away from Faryal's house, but she plays her final card, tricking him to eat a cake, in which she had beforehand, snuck a sleeping pill thus, successfully stopping Romeo from making it to his own wedding on time.