We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of elbow grease in English
Synonyms
Examples for "effort"
Examples for "effort"
1
Although marketing the Internet takes effort in Central Europe, business is good.
2
But the question remains: Did Obama's effort help build the Democratic Party?
3
Sunak said: We are starting a great national effort to protect jobs.
4
Come and see my latest effort- Ithinkit's my best work yet.
5
Graham repeated the problem a month later after 16 days of effort.
1
Skipping is a cost-free way to work up a sweat at home.
2
Nothing good, I'm sure,' the apothecary replied, wiping sweat from his forehead.
3
I trembled in my saddle; my forehead bathed in a cold sweat.
4
Sibahle absolutely bosses every single maths question without even breaking a sweat.
5
The sweat was standing in drops on the brow of the card-sharp.
1
Still, the new findings don't prove athletes' extra exertion caused heart problems.
2
The violence of the exertion cast the young Mohican at his side.
3
The extreme exertion our sport requires means a lot of down time.
4
That much physical exertion would have dropped him with a heart attack.
5
He was still red in the face, from the exertion of stooping.
1
Each morn that dawns I wake in travail and in woe, And
2
The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day.
3
The travail is already begun in you that will form the Christ.'
4
He eliminates it with stern effort and much travail of the spirit.
5
In such travail of soul, he who suffers through suffering is satisfied.
1
Dopamine likely offsets effort costs just as it does for physical effort.
2
If the work requires physical effort, the minimum recommended temperature is 13C.
3
At least the ongoing physical effort helps to keep panic at bay.
4
The physical effort required in the arcoplex's gravity was the only downside.
5
With a physical effort he made the two moons coalesce into one.
Usage of elbow grease in English
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.