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pick-and-shovel
[ pik-uhn-shuhv-uhl ]
adjective
- marked by drudgery; laborious:
the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pick-and-shovel1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
Did you catch and hold the pick-and-shovel men from this camp?
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And it can be said that never labourer proved himself more worthy of his hire than the pick-and-shovel man of those early days.
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I still wanted to work, but I decided that I didn't want to start life at its pick-and-shovel end—if I could help it.
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I tell her that pick-and-shovel man get fifteen dollars a day in the mines.
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Winton was in the thick of the pick-and-shovel melee, urging it on, when Biggin ran up.
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