Dar el do de pecho

[poli]

To put your heart and soal into something?

[Perikles]

GDO:

do de pecho masculino: el do de pecho high C, top C; dar el do de pecho to give one's best; habrá que dar el do de pecho para superar ese récord we'll have to pull out all the stops o give our best to beat that record

[micho]

Originally Posted by Perikles

GDO:

do de pecho masculino: el do de pecho high C, top C; dar el do de pecho to give one's best; habrá que dar el do de pecho para superar ese récord we'll have to pull out all the stops o give our best to beat that record

Yo no lo podría definir mejor.

[Don José]

Yo tampoco.

[poli]

I just got off the phone with someone from Colombia who never heard the phrase. Nevertheless it seems like a good one to know. Perhaps it's Spain-specific. Thanks all.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by poli

Perhaps it's Spain-specific.

Most probably. Not used/heard in Mexico either, but perhaps understood in context.

[Don José]

This is the musical meaning:

In 1831, in Lucca, Duprez took part in the premiere Italian performance of Guglielmo Tell, singing for the first time (in an opera theatre) a high C sung not in the so-called falsettone register,[1] as other tenors of that time were accustomed to do, but with a full voice, often described as coming "from the chest".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Duprez