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throw one's weight behind en · VERB

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1. (idiomatic, transitive) To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse.
   • They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces 2015, Rev. Stephen Jumaat Abdul-Razaq, Islam: The Armageddon Bomb:
   • Rowley called the federation branch “crazy” and “perverse” for throwing its weight behind Di Maria’s judicial review, painting the federation as the roadblock to much-needed reform. 2025 April 5, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer:

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