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The phrase "to bend over backwards" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe making a great effort to accommodate someone or to achieve something. Example: "She really bent over backwards to ensure that her guests had a wonderful experience at the party."
Idiom
Bend over backwards.
Do whatever it takes to help.
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Do not try to bend over backwards trying to "observe them".
But that doesn't mean they won't try to bend over backwards to hate their own gender.
"We are likely to bend over backwards to avoid the appearance of preferential treatment," she said.
Geithner was willing to make deals, to bend over backwards in some cases.
Its correspondents pulled their punches, attempting to bend over backwards to "understand" the Israeli position.
But Mr. Piscitello stressed: "We try to bend over backwards to accommodate people.
Society, she says, shows a "yogic ability to bend over backwards to... accept and normalise" the subordination of the female.
Expect the strict membership rules to be changed to accommodate him, expect the once unbudgeable to bend over backwards.
"They appear to bend over backwards to try to excuse their decision to run away from this case".
"The way we can accomplish that is to bend over backwards to make sure that everything is perfect".
The decision to read the court literally or to bend over backwards to grant Norm Coleman a little more time is in the hands of Mr Pawlenty.
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