sweat over sth
— phrasal verb with sweat uk/swet/us/swet/verb [ I ]
to work very hard using or doing something:
She's been sweating over that essay all afternoon.
I've been sweating over a hot stove (= cooking) all morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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