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Verb: bend over backwards
Usage: informal
  1. Try very hard to please someone
    "She bends over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law";
    - fall over backwards [informal], lean over backwards [informal]

Derived forms: bending over backwards, bent over backwards, bends over backwards

Type of: act, behave, do

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