work like a horse
work like a horse
To work with great intensity, energy, and persistence. That guy has been working like a horse hauling rubble from the collapsed building. We worked like horses to get all of the landscaping done before winter weather set in.
See also: horse, like, work
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- dag
- rattle (one's) dags
- rattle your dags
- storm out of the blocks
- storm out of the traps
- fly out of the traps
- race out of the traps
- pour it on
- give it some stick
- possessed