Use of physical or mental energy; hard work.
1 After searching fruitlessly for elbow grease , I asked the salesclerk for help.
2 Grillbot Grillbot will scrape your grill clean without any elbow grease required.
3 Someone had expended untold hours of elbow grease on the wax finish.
4 With some elbow grease and hacks, Kirkpatrick was able to answer their questions.
5 The Weirs are right; that gorgeous granular texture takes elbow grease .
6 Although they do require elbow grease , the challenge also provides a satisfying reward.
7 With great difficulty and a fair bit of, ahem, elbow grease .
8 Turning the vaka takes a bit of elbow grease and teamwork.
9 A little more soap and elbow grease , the women said, was the secret.
10 This little steel-brushed robot takes the elbow grease out of cleaning the barbecue.
11 It takes a lot of elbow grease , she says, and it's dirty work.
12 He's a great believer in work and elbow grease and such, is Mr. Callow.
13 She wondered what her floors would look like with a bit of elbow grease .
14 But with a little elbow grease that picture would clarify.
15 Put a lot more elbow grease into those oars, Max.
16 The best projects are the ones that take the most elbow grease to get made.
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