play (one's) heart out
To exhibit maximum effort and enthusiasm while playing something, such as a sport, game, or instrument

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play their hearts out

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When we hit the court the team plays their hearts out all night long and we stun them without Martin, our floor leader who had been hurt back in the All-Star..
https://books.google.com/books?id=OzZgPEseaTsC&pg=PA109&lpg=...
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The team plays their hearts out every game. It's so obvious when we play bigger teams like Syracuse that we absolutely must have a couple of "big" players.
http://archive.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/82438092.htm...
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They have a saying in sports to “leave it all on the field.” It means: Hold nothing back, put it all on the line.
http://paidtoexist.com/leave-it-all-on-the-field/
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Leave nothing out on the pitch", means give everything you have to the game. Never come off the field feeling you could have played harder. " Leave it out on the pitch" means you are rivals in the game, but friends off the field
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/334273/is-it-goo...
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leave it all out there

(sports) To strive to the limits of one's capacity; to give one's all when playing a game.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leave_it_all_out_there

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Commentators, mostly on ITV, were urging teams to give it their all and “leave nothing out on the pitch” but they would be more likely to win if .
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/what-are-th...

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Win or lose, leave nothing out on the pitch just give your all.
http://www.youthfootballscotland.co.uk/east-region/itemlist/...
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I,probably like most Down fans would be expecting at the very least that we give everything, leave nothing out on the pitch and never give up.
http://hoganstand.com/county/down/forum/details/82744?PageNu...

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Malvern won 31-37, but we left nothing out on the pitch at the end of the game, nor indeed did Malvern.
http://www.kenilworthrugby.co.uk/table/news/Page-5.html

be ready to sacrifice one's firstborn, take no prisoners, pull out all the stops, fight tooth and claw


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*play one's butt OFF

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Let the real world juniors begin - Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette › sports › soccer › story
The Americans had to mount some kind of response, and did in the second, when they got their noses dirty, played a chippier style and, aided and abetted by a ..

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Lightning strikes, ends Kings Park soccer's streak - TBR News Media
TBR News Media › Sports
Oct 14, 2015 · “We're playing very shorthanded — we're down three starters, and they still played their butts off,” Kings Park head ...

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Live from Emirates Stadium: Arsenal Prepare to Host Dortmund on Special ...
Bleacher Report › articles
At the back end of last season, Arsenal fought tooth and claw to qualify for the Champions League. Their prize was occasions ...

Zwrot ten jest bowiem używany w języku sportowym w odniesieniu do piłkarzy i oznacza «grać z ogromnym zaangażowaniem, pasją i poświęceniem». W języku niemieckim funkcjonuje sformułowanie ‘ins Gras beißen’ (dosłownie ‘gryźć trawę’), odpowiadające pol. ‘gryźć ziemię’, w języku angielskim jednak – nie w starannej angielszczyźnie, tylko w języku potocznym i specjalistycznym – używane bywa połączenie ‘to bite the grass’ w takim samym kontekście, co polskie sportowe ‘gryźć trawę’. - https://www.facebook.com/jezykojczysty/posts/252408831525911

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 Collocation and idiom

bite the dust | ins Gras beißen (but: *bite the grass | *in den Staub beißen) - http://www.lagrammar.net/monographs/1999/slides/pdf/part1.pd... -page 39

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Expect SA players to bite the grass at SW19 - https://www.iol.co.za/sport/tennis/expect-sa-players-to-bite...

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Another option 🙂