college try

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Informal. maximum effort for success on behalf of one's group, team, alma mater, etc. (usually preceded by the phrase the old): We may not make the deadline, but we'll give it the old college try.

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Origin of college try

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby college try

College Park, college-preparatory, college pudding, college radio, College Station, college try, collegial, collegiality, collegian, collegiate, collegiate church

How to use college try in a sentence

Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’
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We try to avoid going away for too long, so we can check back in.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
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“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
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He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells