单词 | blood, sweat, and tears |
释义 | > as lemmasblood, sweat, and tears r. blood, sweat, and tears: extremely hard work; unstinting effort, esp. that involving a degree of pain or sacrifice.Cf. to sweat blood at sweat v. 2b. ΚΠ a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 19 If Princes could keep their own, and that which justly belongeth unto them, they could not be urged to draw such extraordinary Subsidies from the blood, sweat, and tears of their people. 1843 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 July 3/2 With our blood, sweat, and tears, we were doom'd to plod. 1889 G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 23 With all its energy..its ferocious sweating and slave-driving, its prodigality of blood, sweat and tears, what has it [sc. private property] heaped up, over and above the pittance of its slaves? 1939 W. S. Churchill in Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 14/4 Here are new structures of national life erected upon blood, sweat and tears. 1963 R. A. Smith Corporations in Crisis Concl. 206 It takes three to five years of blood, sweat, and tears to get a company ‘turned around again’ after a crisis. 1999 G. Kissick Winter in Volcano (2000) iv. 32 All those years of blood, sweat and tears now boil down to this one serve. 2004 Impact Aug. 53/2 The film is available on DVD complete with out-takes, to see just how much blood, sweat and tears went into the production. < as lemmas |
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