Thanks for doing the spadework.
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Spadework
Synonyms for "spadework" (70 found)
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4 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- работа с лопата noun (work done by digging with a spade)
- рутинна подготвителна работа noun (work done in preparation)
Irish
1 entries- bunobair noun (work done in preparation)
Russian
1 entries- подгото́вка по́чвы noun (work done in preparation)
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It is this help that the present book attempts to give, and the moment of its appearance, during a partial lull of excavation, is an opportune one. There is a chance to take breath and gather up the threads, with the possibility that the next month's spade-work will not put us out of date.
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There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented.
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Removing a portion of chair which had got entangled in my back hair, I said with a candour that became me well: “I was looking for a mouse.” If she had replied, “Ah, yes, indeed. I understand now. A mouse, to be sure. Quite,” everything would have been nice and smooth, but she didn't. “A mouse?” she said. “What do you mean?” Well, of course, if she didn't know what a mouse was, there was evidently a good deal of tedious spadework before us, and one would scarcely have known where to start.
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