Toil Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A work in progress
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Axe to grind
• Beads of sweat
• Beast of burden
• Beast of the fields
• Blood, sweat and tears
• Break out in a cold sweat
• Break sweat
• Bump and grind
• Bury yourself in your work
• By the sweat of his brow
• Close enough for government work
• Cold sweat
• Come out in a cold sweat
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Don't sweat it
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Donkey work
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Fruits of your labour
• Get behind in your work
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Grind to a halt
• Hard labour
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Have your work cut out for you
• Horses sweat, men perspire, women merely glow
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In a cold sweat
• Keep up the good work
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Last ditch effort
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)

• Line of work
• Loves Labour Lost
• Maid of all work
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Many hands make light work
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• No sweat
• Office work
• Old sweat
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Real piece of work
• Running with sweat
• Scrape a living
• Slog away
• Spade work
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Sweat blood
• Sweat like a pig
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• What a piece of work is man
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Woman's work is never done
• Work both sides of the street
• Work expands so as to fill the time available
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Work it
• Work itself up into a lather
• Work life balance
• Work like a Trojan
• Work like a beaver
• Work like a dog
• Work of art
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the phone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Work to rule
• Work wonders
• Work your ass off
• Work your butt off
• Work your ticket
• Work yourself into the ground
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps