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bench jockey
A baseball term for a player, coach or manager who is annoying and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench with verbal repartee.
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at work
At one's workplace.
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at work
Working, in the process of doing work.
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busy work
Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness.
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donkey work
Hard, boring, routine work.
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grunt work
That is considered undesirable and therefore delegated to underlings.
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work at
To make a physical or mental effort to progress some specified task.
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work out
To calculate.
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work out
To make sense of.
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work out
To extract gradually.
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work out
To conclude with the correct solution.
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work out
To succeed.
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work out
To habitually exercise rigorously, especially by lifting weights, in order to increase strength or muscle mass or maintain fitness.
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work out
To do exercises, especially physical.
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work over
To improve a prototype, or first draft.
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work over
To physically attack someone to cause them injury.
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work spouse
A man or woman in the workplace with whom one shares a special relationship having bonds similar to those of a marriage: special confidences, loyalties, shared jokes and experiences, and unusual degree of honesty or openness.
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work like a charm
works great - exactly as expected
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go to work
Beat up, batter.
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go to work
To begin performing some task or work.
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go to work
To go to one's job, as by commuting.
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out of work
Unemployed, or having nothing to do.
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piece of work
A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.
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set to work
To begin working at.
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set to work
To begin working.
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set to work
To cause to begin working.
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stroke of work
With "do not do a", to do none of the assigned task at all.
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work the crowd
To work the room.
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work the room
To interact enthusiastically with the attendees at an event, by moving among them, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation.
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work the room
To interact with one's audience, taking queues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm.
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work to rule
take industrial action
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all in a day's work
A nonchalant dismissal of a significant accomplishment.
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make quick work of
To accomplish a specified task easily and quickly.
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make short work of
To make a task quicker or easier.
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work against the clock
To work very quickly because you know you only have a very limited period of time to do something.
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work around the clock
To work all day and all night without a break, because it is imperative to finish something.
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work one's arse off
Work excessively or to the point of exhaustion.
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work one's butt off
To work very hard or to excess.
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work one's tail off
Work excessively or to the point of exhaustion.
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close enough for government work
It is not worth investing additional time on perfecting this thing.
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many hands make light work
A large number of people co-operating can perform tasks easily.
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only fools and horses work
Philosophy of life that people who do not look for an easy way of earning a living are foolish.
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work one's fingers to the bone
Work especially hard, usually for an extended period.
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all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
Too much focus on one's career is often viewed unfavorably.Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.
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have one's work cut out for one
To face a large task or project.
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knuckle down
To get to work; to focus on a task.
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muck about
To do random unplanned work or spend time idly.
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ring in
To make a phone call to one's usual place of work.
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rock up
To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement.
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take off
To absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.
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