elbow grease

noun

Definitions

  1. Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm,…

    Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.

    • If the F.R. ever expands its administration to include a statistician, his figure for net foot-pounds of elbow grease per trailing ton-mile are going to look quite impressive.

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No curated loop yet for elbow grease. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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