| 单词 | to work like a nigger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto work like a nigger P1. colloquial (originally U.S.). to work like a nigger and variants: to work exceptionally hard. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil workeOE swingc1000 to the boneOE labourc1390 toilc1400 drevyll?1518 drudge1548 droy1576 droil1591 to tug at the (an) oar1612 to stand to it1632 rudge1676 slave1707 to work like a beaver1741 to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828 to feague it away1829 to work like a nigger1836 delve1838 slave1852 leather1863 to sweat one's guts out1890 hunker1903 to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932 to eat (also work) like a horse1937 beaver1946 to work like a drover's dog1952 to get one's nose down (to)1962 1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. 383 I..worked like a new negur.] 1836 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron in Southern Rose 23 July 186/1 I have toiled night and day, I've worked like a nigger, and more than any nigger. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 13 Apr. (1954) III. 404 Charles..will..work like a nigger at his music. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad iii. 40 He laid into his work like a nigger. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxvi All four used to work like niggers. 1902 J. Mathew Austral. Echoes 90 The next to sing was Dick the digger, A man who ‘grafted’ like a nigger. 1920 R. Fry Let. 20 June (1972) II. 481 I have worked like a nigger to arrange it [sc. an exhibition] well. 1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 5 The next year I worked like a nigger and that fall John bought me a coat suit. 1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School xv. 101 If this was the way to get to Caxley High School with its untold joys..why, then she'd work like a nigger and get there! 1997 Transition No. 73. 86 [He] upbraided a journalist who had asked him to work harder with the rhetorical question, ‘Do you expect me to work like a nigger? I am not a Negro.’ < as lemmas |
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