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Meanings of peg away in English
Spanish
trabajar duramente Work doggedly or persistently.
Synonyms
Examples for "slog"
Examples for "slog"
1
It means everyone involved questioning whether the hard slog is worth it.
2
So how come cycling in Ireland is still such a hard slog?
3
He always judges how good a team is by that 38-game slog.
4
It was a slog; I began before iTunes, using its precursor SoundJam.
5
As I write that Trott tries a slog-sweep, but no damage done.
1
The weekly post where you can plug away to your heart's content.
2
Some still plug away, of course, viewing regime change in Iraq as justification enough.
3
Told me what a howling chump I was to plug away on a newspaper on space.
4
From what I hear, sometimes you don't even have to plug away before something turns up.
5
Nuclear power source too, so plug away.
Usage of peg away in English
1
So I will stay here and peg away as long as it lasts.
2
Well, I'll peg away; I can do nothing else, and wouldn't if I could.
3
He took the little red peg away from her and stuck it in its hole.
4
Well, other briefless barristers peg away at journalism, and political agency work, and coaching, and studying.
5
The only thing is to peg away.
6
Now, you peg away at your hymn.
7
My natural tendency is to take up one task, and peg away at it till it is done.
8
But he could not peg away.
9
So peg away at journalism.
10
I used to touch parts of her, or of myself, or Bran, and peg away at the names of them.
11
They had to peg away for dear life, pushing themselves forward with their skee-staves, laboring like plough-horses, panting, snorting, perspiring.
12
Suppose one of them proves interesting, I may pump him and peg away at him, and just at the critical moment he will get out.
13
Maybe I'll catch up a little yet if I keep pegging away.
14
We've got to keep pegging away till it does rain, that's all.
15
He pegged away to the sofa, and threw himself on it.
16
Never was there a more complete vindication of the policy of pegging away.
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