text: what exactly does " conservative effort" mean? english is not my mother tougue, so, to me, it's hard to understand when americans saying  " i'll make a conservative efort"  it would help me big time if anyone answered this    thanks. it means that the effort would be conservative, conservative means , not with eagerness   so generally speaking , it would mean that they would help , but only to get u off their backs , , or they would help , but if any obstacle came in the way , they would drop the whole case