"move heaven and earth" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moves heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moving heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moved heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moved heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "move heaven and earth (third-person singular simple present moves heaven and earth, present participle moving heaven and earth, simple past and past participle moved heaven and earth)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He would move heaven and earth to make sure his family is healthy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 9, Dan Jarvis, “Britain promised to move heaven and earth for all who helped us in Afghanistan. It wasn’t true”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Our policy reflects too little of this. The official line is enduring commitment, and promises to move heaven and earth for those most in danger. But in practice Afghanistan is being swept under the carpet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do whatever is necessary, including extreme or unusual actions; to go to extremes."
      ],
      "id": "en-move_heaven_and_earth-en-verb-NVpJkm4a",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To do whatever is necessary, including extreme or unusual actions; to go to extremes."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "leave no stone unturned"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "move mountains"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "hemel en aarde bewegen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "kääntää maat ja taivaat nurin"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "tehdä kaikkensa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "remuer ciel et terre"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "déplacer des montagnes"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "Himmel und Erde in Bewegung setzen"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "eget-földet megmozgat"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "muovere cielo e terra"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "poruszać niebo i ziemię"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "poruszyć niebo i ziemię"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "move mountains",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "góry svernútʹ",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "го́ры сверну́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "mover cielo y tierra"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "mover Roma con Santiago"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "röra upp himmel och jord"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
          "word": "çalmadık kapı bırakmamak"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "move heaven and earth"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moves heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moving heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moved heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moved heaven and earth",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "move heaven and earth (third-person singular simple present moves heaven and earth, present participle moving heaven and earth, simple past and past participle moved heaven and earth)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "leave no stone unturned"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He would move heaven and earth to make sure his family is healthy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 9, Dan Jarvis, “Britain promised to move heaven and earth for all who helped us in Afghanistan. It wasn’t true”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Our policy reflects too little of this. The official line is enduring commitment, and promises to move heaven and earth for those most in danger. But in practice Afghanistan is being swept under the carpet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do whatever is necessary, including extreme or unusual actions; to go to extremes."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To do whatever is necessary, including extreme or unusual actions; to go to extremes."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "move mountains"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "hemel en aarde bewegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "kääntää maat ja taivaat nurin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "tehdä kaikkensa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "remuer ciel et terre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "déplacer des montagnes"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "Himmel und Erde in Bewegung setzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "eget-földet megmozgat"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "muovere cielo e terra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "poruszać niebo i ziemię"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "poruszyć niebo i ziemię"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "move mountains",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "góry svernútʹ",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "го́ры сверну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "mover cielo y tierra"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "mover Roma con Santiago"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "röra upp himmel och jord"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to go to extreme lengths",
      "word": "çalmadık kapı bırakmamak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "move heaven and earth"
}