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词汇 elbow-grease
释义 elbow grease
noun[ U ]
 informaluk /ˈel.bəʊ ˌɡriːs/ us /ˈel.boʊ ˌɡriːs/
a lot of physical effort: (体力上的)重活;费劲,苦干
The polish needs a certain amount of elbow grease to apply.要把这个擦亮得费不少劲。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Effort and expending energy
assiduity
assiduous
assiduously
assiduousness
be running on emptyidiom
burn
effort
effortful
effortfully
fight
hamster wheel
hard at itidiom
kill
plough
plough through something
push
put something in/put something into something
rearguard action
set/put your mind to somethingidiom
swing

elbow grease | American Dictionary


elbow grease
noun[ U ]
a lot of effort that you put into doing something

Examples of elbow grease


elbow grease
Inquiry into higher-order methods, though, requires more than algebra and elbowgrease.
I would beg of you to appreciate that increased production relies on many things other than the expenditure of human sweat and elbowgrease.
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What we need is skilled and energetic planning and elbowgrease.
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It needs a vigorous application of that primaeval energy source, elbowgrease, if it is to be worth even our interest.
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More elbowgrease was applied to the scouring of a pot than, probably, to any other household task.
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Increased productivity per head of the population in this country rests on many things other than human sweat and elbowgrease.
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It was mainly ineffectual elbowgrease until the pot scourer came along.
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Each tradesperson will say someone else has the elbowgrease and send the unwitting apprentice on to another master tradesperson.
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The museum is a free and not-for-profit service, has been funded exclusively through the generosity of our donors and the free elbowgrease of its founders.
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