to give 110%

Examples

• All

• He always tells his team to give 110% during tough matches to ensure victory.

• If you're working a 9 to 5, more often than not it doesn't matter if you're giving 110% effort or 50% effort.

  Blog text (21)

• Well, man, you just, you stand your ground and you just give 110%.

  One of These Days (2021)

• No matter how he feels, he can give 110%.

  Blog text (27)

• JOAN: He is giving 110%.

  Theater Camp (2023)

• Around Christmastime, the restaurant was really busy; everyone was giving 110%.

  Blog text (4)

• In every game, the coach urges us to give 110% to improve our performance.

• If you want to succeed in this project, you have to give 110% from the start.

Synonyms

G

to give it one's all

vsto give 110%

4 4.9

To try as hard as possible using all your energy

is used more broadly for ongoing or repeated extreme effort

P

to put in a hundred and ten percent

vsto give 110%

• Informal

5.9

To work as hard as you can, often more than expected

uses a concise numeric form to show the same extreme effort

G

to give full measure

vsto give 110%

5.4

Try as hard as possible to do something well

is a more idiomatic and exaggerated expression of effort

G

to give one's all

vsto give 110%

• Informal

3.8

Put in as much effort and energy as possible

tends to sound more exaggerated and beyond expected effort

G

to give one's best

vsto give 110%

• Informal

2.8

To try as hard as you can when doing something

implies ordinary top performance, not necessarily exceeding expectations

Antonyms

G

to give up

∞ 1.2

To stop trying to do something or accept defeat

S

to slack off

• Informal

3 3.9

To become less strong or busy

How Hard

to give 110%

• Informal

2 6.4

to try our best

14 2.1

to try

∞ 1.0

to have a go

• UK

33 4.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology