| 单词 | to work one's brains out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto work one's brains (also eyes, soul, etc.) out a. to work one's brains (also eyes, soul, etc.) out: to work extremely hard.Recorded earliest in to work one's heart out at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 6c(a). See also to work one's guts out at gut n. 1b. Π 1578 T. Lupton All for Money sig. B.iv He is not worthie to liue I make god a vowe, That will not worke his hearte out for both you. 1609 W. Symonds Virginia: Serm. 21 .The poore mettall man worketh his bones out,..yet for all his labour,..hee can hardly keepe himselfe from the almes box. 1830 W. Howitt in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 216/1 This comes of living like a curmudgeon in a great house by yourself, working your eyes out to hoard up money. 1849 W. Valentine Budget of Wit & Humour 49 I've been working my daylights out all summer. 1920 Negro World 13 Mar. in R. A. Hill Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvem. Assoc. Papers (1983) II. 257 The boy..works his soul out from morning to morn-out. 2007 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) (Nexis) 6 Feb. There's nothing I can do about it except work my brains out and coach like hell. < as lemmas |
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