| 释义 |
break the back of1Accomplish the main or hardest part of (a task): we’ve broken the back of the problem...- They broke the back of the task by adding 81 runs in 16 overs for the first wicket.
- They broke the back of their task with an opening stand of 111 in only 18 overs.
- The grants from broke the back of the funding but raising the rest was still a real challenge.
1.1Overwhelm or defeat: I thought we really had broken the back of inflation...- The resistance to the war at home broke the back of the government.
- The wars over the Fair Housing Act were vicious and essentially broke the back of the civil rights consensus in the Democratic party.
- His historic march to the sea was the campaign that broke the back of the Confederacy.
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