do the donkey work

To do difficult and tedious work. Primarily heard in UK. Oh, don't worry, we can get our interns to do the donkey work for us.

do the donkey work

BRITISH

If you do the donkey work, you do the most physically tiring or boring parts of a job or piece of work. The bottom lot were the mechanics who did the sheer physical donkey work. We've been very fortunate getting a succession of secretaries who've managed to do the donkey work.

词组	do the donkey work
释义	do the donkey work do the donkey work To do difficult and tedious work. Primarily heard in UK. Oh, don't worry, we can get our interns to do the donkey work for us. See also: donkey, work Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. do the donkey work BRITISH If you do the donkey work, you do the most physically tiring or boring parts of a job or piece of work. The bottom lot were the mechanics who did the sheer physical donkey work. We've been very fortunate getting a succession of secretaries who've managed to do the donkey work. See also: donkey, work Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: donkey work the donkey work go shares grunt work chuck a sickie be at work be your own master/mistress be (one's) own master mistress blind man's holiday References in periodicals archive "We have worked well together and if I do the donkey work for him to score then I'm fine. I'm handy for Andy
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