put sth in/put sth into sth
— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
to spend a lot of time or effort doing something:
You've obviously put a lot of work in on your garden.
If I put in some extra hours (= spend some extra hours working) today, I can have some time off tomorrow.
We've put a lot of time and effort into making the house look nice.
More examples
- You'll have to put more effort in if you want to improve.
- We've all put a lot of time into this project and we want it to succeed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Effort and expending energy
- apply
- assiduous
- be running on empty idiom
- bust a gut idiom
- concentrated
- conscientious
- fight
- jump
- mightily
- mind
- overcompensate
- pains
- painstaking
- painstakingly
- shot
- slugger
- strenuous
- thirsty work
- trial and error
- work up sth
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