slave away
verb1
To work very hard.
- Rochelle is a perfectionistic, timid, dutiful girl, and she has been slaving away for hours on her math.1999, Elizabeth Berger, Raising Kids with Character: Developing Trust and Personal Integrity in Children, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2004, →ISBN, page 107:
- Thomas Anderson works at what is presumably a moderately well paying middle-class professional job, but his life as a computer programmer for a large corporation, slaving away in a tiny cubicle in a high-rise office building, seems seems mind-numbingly boring and routine.2006, M. Keith Booker, Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture, Praegar, published 2006, →ISBN, page 255:
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- I slaved away in my tiny kitchen, gradually developing my own techniques in my quest for perfect results.2010, Rachel Saunders, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook, Andrews McMeel, published 2010, →ISBN: