plug away
phrasal verbwithplugverb[T]uk/plʌɡ/us/plʌɡ/-gg-
informaltoworkhard and in adeterminedway,especiallyat something that youfinddifficult:
坚持不懈地做(尤指困难的事情)Katie has beenpluggingawayatherhomeworkforhours.凯蒂已经做了好几个小时的作业了。
Work, working and the workplace
- act assomething
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- grind
- hoop
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- moonlight
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- subtask
- sweat