Idiom
guts out
Meaning
To persevere through; to complete in spite of pain, etc.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The race is hard, but you must guts it out to finish.”
“Even though his leg was cramping during the final mile, he decided to guts it out and cross the finish line.”
“Despite the overwhelming exhaustion and the biting cold of the mountain pass, the climbers chose to guts it out until they reached the safety of the base camp.”
Examples
simple
“The race is hard, but you must guts it out to finish.”
contextual
“Even though his leg was cramping during the final mile, he decided to guts it out and cross the finish line.”
complex
“Despite the overwhelming exhaustion and the biting cold of the mountain pass, the climbers chose to guts it out until they reached the safety of the base camp.”
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