elbow grease

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishelbow greaseelbow greaseinformalWORK HARD hard work and effort, especially when cleaning or polishing something → elbowExamples from the Corpuselbow grease• Pioneering vision is required, and elbow grease!• Cleaning Thanks to the availability of steam, cleaning is now a simple task, taking very little effort and no elbow grease.• Hopefully, this knowledge will save many householders a great deal of elbow grease!• It certainly saved a lot of elbow grease.• I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub, putting in plenty of elbow grease.• You'll need to use some elbow grease to get that floor clean.

单词	elbow grease
释义	elbow grease From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishelbow greaseelbow greaseinformalWORK HARD hard work and effort, especially when cleaning or polishing something → elbowExamples from the Corpuselbow grease• Pioneering vision is required, and elbow grease!• Cleaning Thanks to the availability of steam, cleaning is now a simple task, taking very little effort and no elbow grease.• Hopefully, this knowledge will save many householders a great deal of elbow grease!• It certainly saved a lot of elbow grease.• I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub, putting in plenty of elbow grease.• You'll need to use some elbow grease to get that floor clean.
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