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slog away

verb

slog away

verb

Etymology From slog + away.

1

Informal to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner

  • The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories. But such victories are given qualitative value when it is an artist who carries them off[…]2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59:

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