单词 | elbow grease |
释义 | elbow greaseelbow grease informalWORK HARD hard work and effort, especially when cleaning or polishing something 费力的工作〔尤指擦洗等累活〕 Examples from the Corpus elbow grease• Pioneering vision is required, and elbow grease!• Cleaning Thanks to the availability of steam, cleaning is now a simple task, taking very little effort and no elbow grease.• Hopefully, this knowledge will save many householders a great deal of elbow grease!• It certainly saved a lot of elbow grease.• I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub, putting in plenty of elbow grease.• You'll need to use some elbow grease to get that floor clean. → elbow grease at elbow1(1) |
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