glutton for punishment

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Someone who habitually takes on burdensome or unpleasant tasks or unreasonable amounts of work. For example, Rose agreed to organize the church fair for the third year in a row—she's a glutton for punishment. This expression originated as a glutton for work in the late 1800s, punishment being substituted about a century later.

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There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
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In an act of corporal punishment that we at the Daily Beast do not condone, Joseph grabbed Him by the ear and “pulled hard.”
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When Christians and Hindus are accused of insulting Islam in Pakistan, the punishment is harsh.
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Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
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The fact that the day following the punishment parade was a Sunday brought about a certain relaxation from discipline.
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These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
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But once Austria was disposed of, Prussia and Russia met their punishment for having given her secret or open aid.
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Punishment still comes to us from those whom we would circumvent.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
It was he who deserved punishment—not the sufferer with his calamities imposed upon him by his erring sire.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

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