throw one's weight behind

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Tosupport(a cause, a decision, etc.) using one'sinfluence; toendorse.2015, Rev. Stephen Jumaat Abdul-Razaq,Islam: The Armageddon Bomb:They know which candidate tothrow their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces2025May 4, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, inThe Observer‎[1]:Rowley called the federation branch “crazy” and “perverse” forthrowing its weight behindDi Maria’s judicial review, painting the federation as the roadblock to much-needed reform.

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