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• Used to indicate that the specified action is done or performed as hard as possible.

  More example sentences

  • ‘I've worked my guts out to get where I am today’
  • ‘I wasn't getting paid and although it's not all about money you're not going to slug your guts out for nothing.’
  • ‘I do sympathise tremendously - here you are slogging your guts out so that your family can be happy, and yet the amount of time you spend out of the home renders you a virtual stranger to them.’
  • ‘Watch out for the programme to be telecast shortly and laugh your guts out!’
  • ‘People who work their guts out against one another in federal elections are one big, happy family here.’
  • ‘I am satisfied with the effort of the lads today, they really tried their guts out.’
  • ‘The trend in the industrialised world is for people to work their guts out when young, then move to part-time working patterns or contract-based projects as life moves on.’
  • ‘Hats off to all the players currently in Finland playing their guts out for Canada.’
  • ‘It's a good combination, he says - not many bands can scream their guts out and then yodel.’
  • ‘But I have tried my guts out to win the tournament and in the end I blew it.’
  • ‘These boys just went up there and played their guts out and the audience loved them all the more for it.’