"level best" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1885 September, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Solomon’s Road”, in King Solomon’s Mines, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1887, →OCLC, page 102:",
          "text": "Then came a pause, each man aiming his level best, as indeed one is likely to do when one knows that life itself depends upon the shot.",
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          "ref": "1920, John Galsworthy, “Dartie versus Dartie”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 186:",
          "text": "Val walked out behind his mother, chin squared, eyelids drooped, doing his level best to despise everybody.",
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          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 341:",
          "text": "―Say papa, baby. Say pa pa pa pa pa pa pa. / And baby did his level best to say it for he was very intelligent for eleven months everyone said and big for his age and the picture of health, a perfect little bunch of love, and he would certainly turn out to be something great, they said.",
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          "text": "The king-to-be is sulking in a carriage beside his mother, who’s doing her level best to prepare her son for what’s to come.",
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        "The very best that one can do."
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        "(idiomatic) The very best that one can do."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "personal best"
        }
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "very best that one can do",
          "word": "parhaansa"
        },
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "nájdobar",
          "sense": "very best that one can do",
          "word": "на́јдобар"
        },
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "very best that one can do",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "gorau glas"
        }
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        "(idiomatic) The very best that one can do."
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "very best that one can do",
      "word": "parhaansa"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "very best that one can do",
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      "sense": "very best that one can do",
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