“elbow、grease”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

elbow-grease

释义

ˈelbow-grease humorous.
Vigorous rubbing, proverbially referred to as the best unguent for polishing furniture. Hence allusively, energetic labour of any kind.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 5 Two or three brawny Fellows in a Corner, with meer Ink and Elbow-grease, do more Harm than an Hundred systematical Divines with their sweaty Preaching.1699B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Elbow-grease, a derisory Term for Sweat.1735Littleton Lat. Dict., It had no elbow-grease bestowed on't. Nec demorsos sapit ungues.1879Trollope Thackeray 122 Forethought is the elbow-grease which a novelist,—or poet, or dramatist,—requires.

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