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elbow grease
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elbow grease
physical effort, hard work
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Elbow grease
Elbow grease is an idiom for working hard at manual labour. It is a figure of speech for humorously indicating nothing else but manual work is required.
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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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