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Beaver away

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To work hard at a task. idiomatic

    "She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis."

  2. 2
    work hard on something wordnet

Etymology

From the metaphorical image of a person working as industriously as a beaver building its dam.

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