With the best will in the world
No matter how much one wants to or tries, as in I couldn’t eat another bite, not with the best will in the world. [ Mid-1800s ]
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With or ready to dispense rough treatment, as in Prepared to oppose the council, the mayor marched into the meeting with the gloves off. This idiom alludes to old-style boxing, when gloves were not used. [ Early 1800s ]
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with the punches
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with the bark on
- Withy
noun, plural withies. 1. a willow. 2. a pliable branch or twig, especially a withe. 3. a band, loop, halter, or rope of slender twigs; widdy. adjective, withier, withiest. 4. made of pliable branches or twigs, especially of withes. 5. flexible; pliable. noun (pl) withies 1. a variant spelling of withe (sense 1), withe (sense […]