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Literally, it means bending oneself so that one touches the ground behind one while still standing on one's feet. It's something you see contortionists do. Figuratively (and one most often sees the figurative form) it means to go well beyond the normal in order to accommodate or please someone. If John Candy was staying at a hotel and the hotel flew one of its employees to Winnipeg to get pyrogies because John Candy liked to eat pyrogies from Winnipeg, that would be bending over backwards.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 15y agoto make exceptional efforts to do something
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∙ 12y agoIt means you will do a lot to help someone.
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∙ 9y agoYou will do whatever it takes to get something done or to please someone. You will literally bend over backwards if that is what it takes.
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Over there.
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What does the idiom over yonder mean?
Over there.
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