Usually means: Exert utmost effort; try hard.
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  1. strain every nerve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strain every nerve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strain every nerve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. strain every nerve: Dictionary.com
  5. strain every nerve: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. strain every nerve: Wiktionary

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  1. strain every nerve: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (strain every nerve)

verb:  To make every possible effort to do something; to do one's utmost.

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