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muck in

verb

  1. slang,  (intr, adverb) to share something, such as duties, work, etc (with other people)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He showed authentic courage when he flew helicopters in the Falklands war and he was remembered as being willing to "muck in" during that stressful time, when crews were living on canned food rather than fine dining.

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Björn Höcke once called for a "180-degree turnaround" in Germany's handling of its Nazi past while a former co-leader, Alexander Gauland, described the Nazi era as "just a speck of bird's muck in more than 1,000 years of successful Germany history".

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Mayo, known professionally as El Bronco, lost seven pairs of specially made boots to the muck in his home in Acapulco’s gritty La Garita district.

Archeologist Frank Cushing, who led an 1896 expedition that unearthed it from peaty muck in Marco Island, south of Naples, called it the “mountain lion god.”

But many of their workdays are more brutal than pretty, because running a small cheese-making venture in 2023 means waking up before dawn, wading through smelly muck in the rain and hoisting heavy curds until your arms throb.

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