Meaning of might and main | Babel Free

Definitions

With all one's strength; as hard as one can.

not-comparable

Examples

“[…] I found myself hanging on the skysail-yard, holding on might and main to the mast; and curling my feet round the rigging, as if they were another pair of hands.”

“c.1890s, Giovanni Boccaccio, James McMullen Rigg (translator), The Decameron, Novel 1, 6, […] he strove might and main to pass⟳ himself off as a holy man […]”

“When the sunlight threads the pine-gloom he is fighting might and main / To clinch the rivets of an Empire down.”

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