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Significados de backbreaking em inglês

Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.

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Uso de backbreaking em inglês
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New York then added two backbreaking goals late in the second period.
Reuters
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The going was harder now; it was backbreaking work pulling the line.
Aground
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He'd take a bit of marching over that backbreaking work any time.
Orb Sceptre Throne
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It was a backbreaking job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
Safe harbour
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Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's backbreaking work was hurting his golf.
Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
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A day of drama, a day of backbreaking climbs and flat-out racing.
The Irish Times
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His hands cover his face as he busts out in backbreaking sobs.
Lit: a memoir
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Much of the work was drudgery; most of it was backbreaking and laborious.
One Basket
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Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor.
Brisingr
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It's easy to forget that all this beauty is built on backbreaking labour.
BBC
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It was backbreaking work-loavesweigh more than you'd think when packed tightly together.
The Storyteller
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Denton-Hurst describes her periods as heavy and messy with backbreaking cramps.
NY Magazine
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Migrants, who do low-paying, backbreaking jobs across the country, face widespread exploitation and discrimination.
Reuters
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It was still either the mill, the backbreaking uncertainty of the fields, or surrender.
The prince of frogtown
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Everything had to go over the walls, a backbreaking task.
Anvil Gate
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A son who could help with backbreaking work, a daughter who could keep the house.
The nobodies album
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