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work like a beaver
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Also, work like a dog or horse or Trojan . Work very energetically and hard, as in She worked like a beaver to clean out all the closets , or I've been working like a dog weeding the garden , or He's very strong and works like a horse . The first of these similes is the oldest, first recorded in 1741; the variants date from the second half of the 1800s. Also see work one's fingers to the bone .Advertisement
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