C1idiompoliticsIELTS-friendly
throw your weight behind something
USUK
to use your power or influence to support a plan or person
'Your' changes: 'threw its weight behind', 'threw their weight behind'. Common in news about leaders and organisations.
In context
The president threw her weight behind the new climate law.
Local businesses have thrown their weight behind the plan for a night market.
More idioms about politics
- a double standarda rule applied more strictly to one group than to another
- a grey areaa situation where the rules are unclear, so nobody is sure what is allowed
- a hidden agendaa secret reason or plan behind what someone says or does
- a hot potatoa difficult issue that people disagree about and nobody wants to deal with
- a lame ducka politician or government with little real power, often near the end of a term in office