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Least effort   /list ˈɛfərt/   Listen
Least effort

noun
1.
The least effortful way to do something.  Synonym: least resistance.






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"Least effort" Quotes from Famous Books



... of man is no rank, sex, or colour. It claims a distinction far above all these; and shall we behold its glorious energies imprisoned in the obscene den of ignorance and want, without making the least effort ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... And he replies: "I shall not be loath to tell you all I know, for they have just passed on from here. The knight was inside yonder, and did a very marvellous thing in raising the stone from the huge marble tomb, quite unaided and without the least effort. He is bent upon the rescue of the Queen, and doubtless he will rescue her, as well as all the other people. You know well that this must be so, for you have often read the inscription upon the stone. No knight was ever born of man and woman, and ...
— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes

... adolescents of feeble muscular development and with long narrow feet, and those especially who, after leaving school, begin some occupation which entails much standing—such as that of a factory hand, message boy, or domestic servant. To enable him to stand with the least effort for long periods, the patient adopts an attitude which makes little demand on the muscles, and throws nearly all the strain of the body weight on the ligaments and bones of the feet. This, which has been ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles



Words linked to "Least effort" :   sweat, travail, elbow grease, exertion, effort



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