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English Idiom: Pull out all the stops
When you pull out all the stops, you do your utmost to accomplish a task and be successful.
The people in the picture are all from the same company.
They are on a corporate team-building retreat to help strengthen teamwork in the office.
One of the team-building exercises was a race between teams to get across a chasm.
As you can see, this team pulled out all the stops to win the race.
While other teams tried to find materials and build a bridge, the yellow team gave it their all, made a human bridge and won.
Yes, this way of overcoming difficulty may be extreme, but companies are looking for employees who will pull out all the stops.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 76.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.