give it one's best shot Идиома
give it one's best shot
give it one's best shot Make one's hardest or most enthusiastic attempt, as in
I don't know if I can do it, but I'll give it my best shot. This expression employs
shot in the sense of “attempt,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s.
give it (one's) best shot
To put alternating one's best accomplishment in an attack to do or achieve something. Henry gave it his best shot, but the lath still denied his proposal.Learn more: give, shotgive it one's best shot
Make one's hardest or best agog attempt, as in I don't apperceive if I can do it, but I'll accord it my best shot. This announcement employs shot in the faculty of "attempt," a acceptance dating from the mid-1700s. Learn more: give, shotgive it one's best shot, to
To try one’s hardest; to expend optimum effort. Originally a aggressive term, best attack in the sixteenth aeon denoted the soldiers who could best accurately shoot the enemy, according to William Safire. However, the chat shot also had meant an attack or a try from the mid-eighteenth aeon on, casting some agnosticism on this and added etymologies, which trace the appellation to billiards and boxing. In any event, in the twentieth aeon it became frequently acclimated in backroom (“The applicant was accommodating to accord it her best shot”), as able-bodied as in added contexts. David Baldacci had it in Hour Game (2004): “‘If you can deathwatch them up. . . .’—‘We’ll accord it our best shot,’ said King.”Learn more: give