do your part

Help the effort

Do your part is an appeal to contribute what you can to a collective effort.

The phrase implies that success depends on everyone's individual contributions, however small: If we all do our part, we can make a difference.

It often appears in civic campaigns, wartime propaganda, and environmental messaging, carrying a mild tone of moral obligation.

Related

teamwork · all hands on deck · responsibility · duty · civic duty · effort · share · collective · community · civic · step up · lend a hand · chip in · cooperate · solidarity · sacrifice · commitment · role

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Opposites
contribution vs. non-contribution

do your partfreeload

Take without reciprocating

free ride · shirk · slack off · mooch · coast

responsibility vs. irresponsibility

do your partpass the buck

Transfer responsibility elsewhere

drop the ball · flake out

fairness in shared effort

do your parttake advantage

Use opportunistically for benefit

game the system

Family

doer, doers, your, yours, yourself, yourselves, part, parts, parted

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G