bend over backwards
verb- They bent over backwards to make sure everything was just right for the visit.
- The police were plainly on his side. Lawyers helped, too, with a letter he used to justify his strategy. And of course the government of the day bent over backwards to ensure nothing would stand in the way of the media baron's ambitions.2011 July 27, Jon Henley, “Rupert Murdoch and the battle of Wapping: 25 years on”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bend over, backwards.