elbow grease
Gelenkschmiere, Spucke
Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the…Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.
» Put some elbow grease into it.
Meaning
1 senses(idiomatic, uncountable)Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.
Gelenkschmiere, Spucke
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
Examples
4 sentencesPut some elbow grease into it.
I guess we'll have to use some elbow grease.
You need to put some elbow grease into it.
With a little elbow grease we'll have this up and running again in no time.
Translations
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By meaning 1
effort or hard work:
Synonyms
5 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable