elbow-grease
hard work, physical effort
TRANSLATION
schwere körperliche Arbeit; die Anstrengung
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Elbow grease: the only way to healthy heart
There is bad news for couch potatoes who think they can cut their heart disease risk by avoiding fatty foods. A study in New England Journal of Medicine finds low-fat diets do not work unless you get off the couch and exercise as well.
(BBC News - July 2nd 1998)
There is bad news for couch potatoes who think they can cut their heart disease risk by avoiding fatty foods. A study in New England Journal of Medicine finds low-fat diets do not work unless you get off the couch and exercise as well.
(BBC News - July 2nd 1998)
Did you
know?
"Elbow grease" first made its appearance on the English scene back in the late 1600s, where it was immediately used as a humorous description for the sweat produced by hard work. It later came to mean "effort in doing labour," the meaning we give it today.
"Elbow grease" tends to appear in speech or casual writing. For more formal writing, use instead a word like "effort," "exertion," or "hard-work".
Synonyms:
blood sweat and tears, effort, exertion, hard-work, labor, muscle, oomph, strain, strength, sweat, sweat of one's brow, toil, travail
Examples of "elbow grease" in the English language:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22apply+some+elbow+grease+to%22+financial+times&btnG=Google+Search
"Elbow grease" tends to appear in speech or casual writing. For more formal writing, use instead a word like "effort," "exertion," or "hard-work".
Synonyms:
blood sweat and tears, effort, exertion, hard-work, labor, muscle, oomph, strain, strength, sweat, sweat of one's brow, toil, travail
Examples of "elbow grease" in the English language:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22apply+some+elbow+grease+to%22+financial+times&btnG=Google+Search
