set/put your mind to sth
C1 to decide you are going to do something and to put a lot of effort into doing it:
If you'd just put your mind to it, I'm sure you could do it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Effort and expending energy
- apply
- assiduous
- be running on empty idiom
- bust a gut idiom
- concentrated
- conscientious
- fight
- jump
- mightily
- mind
- overcompensate
- pains
- painstaking
- painstakingly
- shot
- slugger
- strenuous
- thirsty work
- trial and error
- work up sth
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