sweat blood

sweat blood
phrasal
: to work or worry intensely

in preparing speeches each sweats blood in his own way — Stewart Cockburn

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sweat blood
To work or worry extremely hard
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Main Entry:sweat

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sweat blood informal phrase
to work very hard to achieve something
Thesaurus: to work hardsynonym
Main entry: sweat

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informal make an extraordinarily strenuous effort to do something

she's sweated blood to support her family

be extremely anxious

we've been sweating blood over the question of what is right

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sweat blood
informal : to care a lot about something and work very hard for it

basketball players who sweat blood for their teams

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Main Entry:blood
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sweat blood — see blood
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Main Entry:sweat

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sweat ˈblood idiom
(informal) to work very hard

I sweated blood to get everything ready in time.

Main entry:sweatidiom

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  • sweat\ blood — v. phr. slang 1. To be very much worried. The engine of the airplane stopped, and the pilot sweated blood as he glided to a safe landing. 2. To work very hard. Jim sweated blood to finish his composition on time …   Словарь американских идиом

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