make every effort

call someone every name in the book

To call someone many abusive names.

cannot make it

Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.

doctors make the worst patients

It is difficult to advise people on subjects that they are experts on.

enough to make a cat laugh

Very outlandish or outrageous.

enough to make the angels weep

Something so distressing that it causes one to lose hope and faith.

every bit

Exactly, to its full degree

every inch

Totally, completely.

every last

every; without exception (used for emphasis).