slave away
English
Verb
slave away (third-person singular simple present slaves away, present participle slaving away, simple past and past participle slaved away)
- (intransitive) To work very hard.
- 1999, Elizabeth Berger, Raising Kids with Character: Developing Trust and Personal Integrity in Children, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2004, →ISBN, page 107:
- Rochelle is a perfectionistic, timid, dutiful girl, and she has been slaving away for hours on her math.
- 2006, M. Keith Booker, Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture, Praegar, published 2006, →ISBN, page 255:
- Thomas Anderson works at what is presumably a moderately well paying middle-class professional job, but his life as a computer programmer for a large corporation, slaving away in a tiny cubicle in a high-rise office building, seems seems mind-numbingly boring and routine.
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