throw one's weight behind

English

Verb

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)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse.
    • 2015, Rev. Stephen Jumaat Abdul-Razaq, Islam: The Armageddon Bomb:
      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
    • 2025 May 4, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer‎[1]:
      Rowley called the federation branch “crazy” and “perverse” for throwing its weight behind Di Maria’s judicial review, painting the federation as the roadblock to much-needed reform.
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