| 词汇 | pull out all the stops |
| 词源 | pull out all the stops. An organist who pulled out all the stops—levers used to change the sound of the instrument— would be giving his all, the meaning of this phrase. Though the organ, or its rude prototype, originated in Greece, the expres- sion deriving from it dates back to 19th-century England. |
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