beaver away
phrasal verbwithbeaververbuk/ˈbiː.vər/us/ˈbiː.vɚ/
UKinformaltoworkhard for alongtime:
长时间努力工作She has been beavering awayatthatessayforhours.她忙那篇论文已经忙了好几个小时了。
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
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- job
- moonlight
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- subtask
- sweat