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move heaven and earth to do something

• make extraordinary efforts to do a specified thing.
• "if he had truly loved her he would have moved heaven and earth to get her back"
Similar: try one's hardest, try as hard as one can, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give one's all, make every effort, spare no effort, put oneself out, strive, struggle, exert oneself, work hard, endeavour, try, bend over backwards, do one's damnedest, go all out, pull out all the stops, bust a gut, break one's neck, kill oneself, do one's darnedest/durnedest, go for the doctor,


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