"throw one's weight behind" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "throws one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "throwing one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "threw one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrown one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "throw<,,threw,thrown> one's weight behind"
      },
      "expansion": "throw one's weight behind (third-person singular simple present throws one's weight behind, present participle throwing one's weight behind, simple past threw one's weight behind, past participle thrown one's weight behind)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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            [
              29,
              54
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          "ref": "2015, Rev. Stephen Jumaat Abdul-Razaq, Islam: The Armageddon Bomb:",
          "text": "They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse."
      ],
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          "support"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ],
        [
          "endorse",
          "endorse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throw one's weight behind"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throws one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "throwing one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "threw one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrown one's weight behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "throw<,,threw,thrown> one's weight behind"
      },
      "expansion": "throw one's weight behind (third-person singular simple present throws one's weight behind, present participle throwing one's weight behind, simple past threw one's weight behind, past participle thrown one's weight behind)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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              29,
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          "text": "They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse."
      ],
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          "support",
          "support"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ],
        [
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          "endorse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throw one's weight behind"
}