💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Work like a dog"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| work like a horseverb | (simile, idiomatic, informal) To work very hard; to toil. |
| work like a muleverb | (simile) To work very hard; to toil. |
| work like a trojanverb | (simile) To work very hard. |
| work like a nailerverb | (dated, simile) To work very hard. |
| slave awayverb | (intransitive) To work very hard. |
| work one's fingers to the boneverb | (idiomatic) To work especially hard, usually for an extended period. |
| sweat one's guts outverb | (informal) to work very hard. |
| sweat bloodverb | (informal) To work very hard. |
| do a lot of workverb | (literally) To perform a large amount of work. |
| slug awayverb | (idiomatic, intransitive) To work very hard (at); to toil |
| toolnoun | Any physical device meant to ease or do a task. |
| slavenoun | A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. |
| work into the groundverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To exhaust through heavy labour. |
| make hard work ofverb | (idiomatic) To do (something) in a way that makes it more difficult than it needs to be. |
| go hamverb | (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular, often with on) To do something with the maximum possible effort; to go all out. |
| work like a dreamverb | (idiomatic) To function very efficiently and effectively, with few or no problems. |
| sweatnoun | Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. |
| beaver awayverb | (idiomatic) To work hard at a task. |
| hustlenoun | A state of busy activity. |
| bang awayverb | (idiomatic, intransitive) to work tirelessly |
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