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grind; lucubrate; bang away (krolikova); work like a Trojan; be hard at work (The PC is custom-made for the indolent: you can give every impression of being hard at work when in fact you are doing your shopping, booking a holiday or otherwise frolicking in the cyber-waves.); come along; work hard (В.И.Макаров); plug away (VLZ_58); give 110% (Taras); give a hundred and ten percent (Taras); give it one hundred and ten percent (Taras); ply (чем-либо); grind away; ground; drive (для достижения чего-либо); work tirelessly (sankozh) | |||
dig | |||
like jackie | |||
grind away (at); chug away (пыхтеть над... chilin) | |||
give application to work; work strenuously; drive away (at; над чем-либо); drive for (для достижения чего-либо); hammer at; hammer away | |||
grind away at | |||
work one's tail off (Helene2008) | |||
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work hard (well enough, steadily, conscientiously, busily, etc.) |
усердно работать : 35 phrases in 7 subjects |
Cliche / convention | 2 |
General | 17 |
Informal | 2 |
Literature | 1 |
Makarov | 9 |
Nautical | 1 |
Slang | 3 |