Meanings of sweeping floors in English

I was given work at sweeping floors in the very store I now own.

He started " sweeping floors and bagging coins" in his father's butcher shop when he was 13.

Making beds, sweeping floors, washing floors.

In the streets one door after another is opened; blinds are raised, office-boys are sweeping floors and dusting counters.

Whether you're sweeping floors, flipping burgers, or the CEO of a major corporation, you must be able to solve problems.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The DOJ treats banks like juvenile offenders - sweeping floors, perhaps, but never really facing adult penalties.

We all spent the first several hours in our "vacation home" cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms and sweeping floors.

Alternately chopping wood and carpentering, farming and teaching school, ringing bells and sweeping floors, he worked his way through seminary and college.

When your father has done something like that, how can you spend the rest of your life sweeping floors and polishing windows?

The novice had to perform the meanest tasks, sweeping floors and begging in the street on behalf of his brethren of the Augustinian Order.

Sweeping floors, fetching and carrying, that sort of thing.

"It probably pays better than sweeping floors or packing some fop's baggage," Vatz added.

'Nothing but ghastly bees and sweeping floors and fetching water till we die of old age!

"I was accepted with a full scholarship to study at MIT, but took a job sweeping floors there instead."

'Well,' he says, 'I've been looking for a man so useful sweeping floors that I could pay him four dollars a day.

"I wanted to read and learn and write; Mr. Fleming had me sweeping floors, running errands, carrying parcels of books across town."