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donkey work

noun

Definitions

  1. Work that is difficult, boring, and routine.

    • Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work, and even the company's dirty work?
    • Labi said she did not need to carry planks of wood on her head any more, it was donkey work for idiots
    • But what looks like donkeywork is a necessary step in a formulaic approach, a set of prescribed practices that have their own embedded wisdom.

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