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hard at work

phrase

Definitions

  1. Labouring with great effort and diligence

    Labouring with great effort and diligence; working hard.

    • I'm sorry I can't make it to the party—I'm going to be hard at work all day.
    • The relegation of locomotives to storage seemed to be on a very unsystematic basis on all three principal Irish railways: while one member of a class was rusting in a yard, another might be hard at work in revenue-earning service—[…].

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA