work like a nailer

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work like a nailer (third-person singular simple present works like a nailer, present participle working like a nailer, simple past and past participle worked like a nailer)

(dated, simile) To work very hard.
- 1834 September, Craven, "Goodwood Races – Tuesday, July 29", The Sporting Magazine (London) s. 2, vol. 9, no. 53, p. 388
  Boyce was working away like a nailer at His Grace's colt, an exertion he might have spared himself , but that it is necessary to do something for one's money
- 1918 George Barr McCutcheon, The City of Masks (New York: Dodd, Mead) p. 191
  You might as well understand in the beginning that he'll have to work like a nailer for a good many years before he gets anywhere in the diplomatic service
- 1947 January 13, Stewart H. Holnrook, "Lost Men of American History", Life (New York) vol. 22 no. 2 p. 84
  Lee had to work like a nailer to get the awkward craft turned about, and then by great labor at the crank "for the space of five glasses by the ships' bells, or two and a half hours," at last he arrived under the stern of what he felt certain was the Eagle.

单词	work like a nailer
释义	work like a nailer English Verb work like a nailer (third-person singular simple present works like a nailer, present participle working like a nailer, simple past and past participle worked like a nailer) (dated, simile) To work very hard. 1834 September, Craven, "Goodwood Races – Tuesday, July 29", The Sporting Magazine (London) s. 2, vol. 9, no. 53, p. 388 Boyce was working away like a nailer at His Grace's colt, an exertion he might have spared himself , but that it is necessary to do something for one's money 1918 George Barr McCutcheon, The City of Masks (New York: Dodd, Mead) p. 191 You might as well understand in the beginning that he'll have to work like a nailer for a good many years before he gets anywhere in the diplomatic service 1947 January 13, Stewart H. Holnrook, "Lost Men of American History", Life (New York) vol. 22 no. 2 p. 84 Lee had to work like a nailer to get the awkward craft turned about, and then by great labor at the crank "for the space of five glasses by the ships' bells, or two and a half hours," at last he arrived under the stern of what he felt certain was the Eagle. See also busy as a nailer
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work like a nailer

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