donkey work
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Noun[edit]
- (idiomatic) Hard, boring, routine work.
- Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work?
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 161:
- Labi said she did not need to carry planks of wood on her head any more, it was donkey work for idiots
- 2022, The Atlantic:
- But what looks like donkeywork is a necessary step in a formulaic approach, a set of prescribed practices that have their own embedded wisdom.
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hard, boring, routine work
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