elbow grease

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elbow grease
physical effort, hard work


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Elbow grease
Elbow grease is an old term for working hard at manual labour or trades, as in "put some elbow grease into that". It is also used as a practical joke by master tradesperson on apprentices - e.g. "Go fetch some elbow grease from him". Each tradesperson will say someone else has the elbow grease and send the unwitting apprentice on to another master tradesperson. The snipe hunt will continue until the apprentice gives up, catches on or runs out of people/places to search.
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elbow grease
Noun
1. use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
(synonym) effort, exertion, travail, sweat
(hypernym) labor, labour, toil
(hyponym) struggle


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elbow grease
effort and strength to clean something We`ll have to use a lot of elbow grease to get the kitchen cleaned.

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elbow grease
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مشقت, محنت

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