bending over backward
- accommodatingWilling to help others
- strainingExerting intense effort
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- pleasingCausing enjoyment or satisfaction
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
flexibility · contortion · stretch · leaning · yielding · obliging · going the extra mile · selfless · compromise · exhausting · overextending · people-pleasing · doormat · servile · gymnastics · reaching · twisting · desperate
- metaphors for overachievementgoing the extra mile, raising the bar, going above and beyond, overdelivering, overperforming
effort and accommodation
bending over backwardphoning it in
Performing without genuine commitment
going through the motions · stonewalling · looking out for number one · coasting · slacking off
flexibility vs. rigidity
bending over backwardstonewalling
Deliberately refusing to respond
digging in one's heels · standing pat · blocking · resisting · dragging one's feet