BEND OVER BACKWARDS

”Bend over backwards”, which means “to try very hard to do something.” অর্থাৎ সর্বোচ্চ চেষ্টা করা অর্থে এই idiom টি ব্যবহার করা হয়। যখন কেউ কোন কাজ করার ক্ষেত্রে তার সর্বোচ্চ পরিশ্রম দিয়ে থাকে তখন তার চেষ্টা আর পরিশ্রমকে সঠিক ভাবে বুঝাতে ”Bend over backwards”, এই Idiom টি করা হয়ে থাকে।

 

☑ Example Sentences

  1. Banks are bending over backwards to provide facilities to the depositors.
  2. They bend over backwards to help him accomplish anything.
  3. There is tough competition in the industry and companies are bending over backwards to keep their customers happy.
  4. Our hosts were amazing people and bent over backwards to keep us comfortable.
  5. When his children were small, he used to bend over backwards to fulfil their needs, but now they do not care for him.
  6. He bent over backwards trying to please his potential clients so that they would give him the contract.
  7. She bent over backwards trying to accommodate her guests into her small room and taking care of their requirements.
  8. She bent over backwards to help him.
  9. I bent over backwards to make it easier for her and she didn’t even notice.
  10. Our children really bend over backwards to help our son who has autism.
  11. We bent over backwards to pay your tuition and all you did was the party last semester.


♜ORIGIN OF THIS IDIOM:

This phrase has its origin in gymnastics and was used as early as 920 CE to compare the athletic act of bending the back to doing something difficult.

 

What’s an Idiom?

Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning that you would not be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. The ubiquitous greeting “How are you doing today?” is an example of an idiom. Normally, how means “in what manner” or “to what degree.” Taken literally, the question doesn’t make a lot of sense. But fluent English speakers understand the idiomatic meaning; “How are you doing today?” usually just means “hello.”

 

Idiom vs. Cliché

The terms idiom and cliché are often used interchangeably, especially when people talk about things you shouldn’t say. But they’re not quite the same thing. A cliché is an expression like “throw the baby out with the bathwater” or “the cat who ate the canary”—a phrase that has been repeated so often that it’s no longer effective. Clichés are like idioms in that you can’t understand the meaning of the phrase by looking at the literal meaning of each word. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater has nothing to do with babies or bathwater; it means that you’re in such a hurry to get rid of something that you accidentally throw out something valuable, too. Someone who looks like a cat who ate the canary doesn’t look like a feline. She looks like someone who is proud of getting away with mischief.

But not all idioms are clichés in the same way that “throw the baby out with the bathwater” is. Consider the phrase “all of a sudden.” You probably know that this phrase means “suddenly.” But it’s hard to see why. We don’t normally use sudden as a noun, as it seems to be in this phrase. And why all? Can you have part of a sudden? Some idioms that seem nonsensical now actually did make logical sense in the past (sudden was a noun, once, but that usage died out everywhere except in this phrase).

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FAYSAL KHAN (FK)
BA, (Hons), MA; English (ELT)
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