effort

• Elbow Grease

  Intensive physical effort or hard manual labor, especially when cleaning or polishing something.

• Tall Order

  A request or task that is exceptionally difficult to fulfill or achieve.

• Cut corners

  To perform a task or produce something by omitting necessary steps or expenses to save time or money, often resulting in lower quality.

• Going the extra mile

  To make a special effort, exceed expectations, or do more than what is strictly required.

• Move mountains

  To accomplish an extremely difficult or seemingly impossible task through great determination and effort.

• Run around in circles

  To be busy doing things that achieve nothing or make no progress.

• Spin one's wheels

  To exert a lot of effort without achieving any meaningful progress or results.

• Pin one's ears back

  To prepare oneself for intense listening, often in anticipation of criticism or serious information, or to get ready for a significant and focused effort.

• Bend over backwards

  To make an extreme effort, often going to great lengths, to please someone or achieve a difficult task.

• Burn the candle at both ends

  To exhaust oneself by working or socializing excessively, often staying up late and waking early.

• Flat out

  To do something with maximum effort or speed, or to state something unequivocally.

• Have the sleeves rolled up

  To be ready and prepared to do hard work or tackle a difficult task with enthusiasm.

• Forge ahead

  To make determined and forceful progress, especially despite obstacles or challenges.

• Brick by brick

  To build or achieve something steadily and systematically, one small step at a time.

• Get your teeth into

  To engage with something challenging or interesting with enthusiasm and determination.

• Pull your finger out

  This idiom means to stop wasting time and start working more quickly or effectively.

• Put your back into it

  To apply a great deal of physical effort and energy to a task.

• Sweat blood

  To sweat blood means to work extremely hard and endure great difficulty and suffering to achieve something.

• The grind

  The relentless, often monotonous effort and hard work required to achieve a goal or sustain a daily routine.

• Consistency is key

  Performing or behaving in a steady, reliable, and uniform manner is essential for achieving success or desired results.

• Get your teeth into something

  To fully engage with a task or problem, dedicating significant effort and attention to it.

• Talk until you're blue in the face

  To argue or explain something repeatedly and strenuously without success or getting the desired result.

• With your bare hands

  To accomplish something using only one's hands, without the aid of any tools, weapons, or other assistance.

• Put your heart into it

  To perform a task or endeavor with complete passion, dedication, and sincere effort.

• Lift a finger

  To make even the slightest effort or perform a small amount of work, most often used in negative contexts to imply unwillingness.

• Stand on your head

  To make an extreme, often absurd, effort or go to great lengths to achieve something, often implying the difficulty or unlikelihood of success.

• Every drop counts

  Even the smallest amount or effort is important and can contribute significantly to a larger goal or resource.

• hammer this point home

  To ensure an idea, argument, or lesson is fully understood and remembered, often through emphasis or repetition.

• Massive undertaking

  A task or project that is extremely large, difficult, and requires a great deal of effort, resources, or time.

• An active participant

  A person who is deeply involved and contributes energy and effort to an activity, group, or process.

• A monumental achievement

  An extremely significant, impressive, or historically important accomplishment that often requires great effort and skill.

• A work of devotion

  A task or creation undertaken with immense dedication, profound care, and a deep, often personal or spiritual, commitment.

• A labor of passion

  A project or undertaking that requires significant effort and dedication, primarily driven by one's deep interest or love for it rather than by monetary gain or external obligation.

• A mere chore

  Something that is perceived as a routine, uninteresting, or insignificant task that simply needs to be completed.

• Shoulder the burden

  To accept or take on a difficult responsibility or heavy task.

• Roll up your sleeves

  To prepare for hard work or a difficult task that requires effort and dedication.

• Every little bit helps

  Even small contributions, efforts, or amounts, when combined, can make a significant positive difference.

• Stab in the dark

  To make a wild guess or an attempt without any real information or knowledge, hoping by chance to be correct or successful.

• A formidable challenge

  A formidable challenge refers to a task or problem that is exceptionally difficult, intimidating, and requires significant effort and skill to overcome.

• To cast off a burden

  To release oneself from a responsibility, worry, or heavy load that has been causing distress or difficulty.

• An exercise in futility

  An activity or effort that is pointless because it will inevitably fail to produce any useful or desired outcome.

• An ounce of action is worth a pound of words

  Doing something, however small, holds far more value and impact than merely talking about it or making promises.

• From morning till night

  This phrase describes something that occurs continuously throughout the entire day, from its beginning at dawn to its end in darkness.

• Non-stop

  Continuing without any pause or interruption.

• Pitch in

  To contribute effort, time, or money to a shared task or goal, often spontaneously.

• Get stuck in

  To apply oneself to a task or activity with enthusiasm and vigor, or to begin eating food with gusto.

• Put one's shoulder to the wheel

  To apply concerted effort and work hard to help achieve a difficult task or common goal.

• Go all out

  To dedicate maximum effort, resources, or enthusiasm towards an activity or goal.

• Give it your all

  To dedicate maximum effort, energy, and commitment to a task or endeavor, holding nothing back.

• Working through the night

  To continue working without stopping, from the evening until the morning.

• A steep hill to climb

  A steep hill to climb refers to a challenging task or a significant obstacle that requires considerable effort and determination to overcome.

• Working one's fingers to the bone

  To work extremely hard and diligently, often to the point of exhaustion or physical strain.

• Toil away

  To work continuously and strenuously, often involving great effort and persistence over a long period.

• Dig deeper

  To investigate or explore a topic, problem, or situation more thoroughly than initially, in order to uncover more information or a deeper understanding.

• Pushed to the limit

  To be forced to exert maximum effort or endure the greatest possible strain, often reaching the point of exhaustion or breaking.

• Dust oneself off and try again

  To recover from a setback or failure and make another attempt.

• Stretched to the limit

  To be pushed to the absolute maximum of one's endurance, capacity, or resources.

• Spin your wheels

  To expend a lot of effort without achieving any meaningful progress or results.

• Waste your breath

  To speak to someone without any effect, often because they are unwilling to listen or change their mind.

• just skim the surface

  To deal with or discuss something only superficially, without exploring it in depth.

• delve deep into something

  To thoroughly investigate or explore a topic, subject, or situation with great detail and intensity.