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Trying hard, dressed in a tuxedo so failure sounds distinguished.
means To make a serious, sustained effort to achieve something.
from Built from the Middle English phrase 'put oneself in devoir' — devoir being French for 'duty,' tracing back to Latin 'debere,' to owe. So an endeavor is literally the act of putting yourself in a state of obligation to a goal — turning 'duty' into a verb by sheer grammatical effort, then dressing it up to sound noble.
- origin
- from putting oneself in dever, old french for duty
- usage tell
- appears right before something goes ambitiously wrong
- nasa link
- space shuttle named after cook's first ship
- corporate cousin
- synergy's slightly more respectable older sibling