effort
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Elbow Grease
Intensive physical effort or hard manual labor, especially when cleaning or polishing something.
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Tall Order
A request or task that is exceptionally difficult to fulfill or achieve.
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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.
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Going the extra mile
To make a special effort, exceed expectations, or do more than what is strictly required.
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Move mountains
To accomplish an extremely difficult or seemingly impossible task through great determination and effort.
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Run around in circles
To be busy doing things that achieve nothing or make no progress.
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Spin one's wheels
To exert a lot of effort without achieving any meaningful progress or results.
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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.
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Bend over backwards
To make an extreme effort, often going to great lengths, to please someone or achieve a difficult task.
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Burn the candle at both ends
To exhaust oneself by working or socializing excessively, often staying up late and waking early.
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Flat out
To do something with maximum effort or speed, or to state something unequivocally.
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Have the sleeves rolled up
To be ready and prepared to do hard work or tackle a difficult task with enthusiasm.
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Forge ahead
To make determined and forceful progress, especially despite obstacles or challenges.
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Brick by brick
To build or achieve something steadily and systematically, one small step at a time.
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Get your teeth into
To engage with something challenging or interesting with enthusiasm and determination.
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Pull your finger out
This idiom means to stop wasting time and start working more quickly or effectively.
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Put your back into it
To apply a great deal of physical effort and energy to a task.
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Sweat blood
To sweat blood means to work extremely hard and endure great difficulty and suffering to achieve something.
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The grind
The relentless, often monotonous effort and hard work required to achieve a goal or sustain a daily routine.
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Consistency is key
Performing or behaving in a steady, reliable, and uniform manner is essential for achieving success or desired results.
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Get your teeth into something
To fully engage with a task or problem, dedicating significant effort and attention to it.
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Talk until you're blue in the face
To argue or explain something repeatedly and strenuously without success or getting the desired result.
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With your bare hands
To accomplish something using only one's hands, without the aid of any tools, weapons, or other assistance.
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Put your heart into it
To perform a task or endeavor with complete passion, dedication, and sincere effort.
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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.
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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.
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Every drop counts
Even the smallest amount or effort is important and can contribute significantly to a larger goal or resource.
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hammer this point home
To ensure an idea, argument, or lesson is fully understood and remembered, often through emphasis or repetition.
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Massive undertaking
A task or project that is extremely large, difficult, and requires a great deal of effort, resources, or time.
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An active participant
A person who is deeply involved and contributes energy and effort to an activity, group, or process.
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A monumental achievement
An extremely significant, impressive, or historically important accomplishment that often requires great effort and skill.
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A work of devotion
A task or creation undertaken with immense dedication, profound care, and a deep, often personal or spiritual, commitment.
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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.
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A mere chore
Something that is perceived as a routine, uninteresting, or insignificant task that simply needs to be completed.
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Shoulder the burden
To accept or take on a difficult responsibility or heavy task.
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Roll up your sleeves
To prepare for hard work or a difficult task that requires effort and dedication.
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Every little bit helps
Even small contributions, efforts, or amounts, when combined, can make a significant positive difference.
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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.
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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.
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To cast off a burden
To release oneself from a responsibility, worry, or heavy load that has been causing distress or difficulty.
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An exercise in futility
An activity or effort that is pointless because it will inevitably fail to produce any useful or desired outcome.
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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.
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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.
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Non-stop
Continuing without any pause or interruption.
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Pitch in
To contribute effort, time, or money to a shared task or goal, often spontaneously.
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Get stuck in
To apply oneself to a task or activity with enthusiasm and vigor, or to begin eating food with gusto.
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Put one's shoulder to the wheel
To apply concerted effort and work hard to help achieve a difficult task or common goal.
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Go all out
To dedicate maximum effort, resources, or enthusiasm towards an activity or goal.
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Give it your all
To dedicate maximum effort, energy, and commitment to a task or endeavor, holding nothing back.
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Working through the night
To continue working without stopping, from the evening until the morning.
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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.
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Working one's fingers to the bone
To work extremely hard and diligently, often to the point of exhaustion or physical strain.
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Toil away
To work continuously and strenuously, often involving great effort and persistence over a long period.
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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.
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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.
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Dust oneself off and try again
To recover from a setback or failure and make another attempt.
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Stretched to the limit
To be pushed to the absolute maximum of one's endurance, capacity, or resources.
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Spin your wheels
To expend a lot of effort without achieving any meaningful progress or results.
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Waste your breath
To speak to someone without any effect, often because they are unwilling to listen or change their mind.
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just skim the surface
To deal with or discuss something only superficially, without exploring it in depth.
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delve deep into something
To thoroughly investigate or explore a topic, subject, or situation with great detail and intensity.