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Roll up your sleeves.
Meaning, to prepare to do hard work.
It's not easy work to do,
so you have to roll up your sleeves.
To keep the nose to the grindstone.
Meaning, to work hard,
to concentrate on the task at hand.
My husband keeps his nose to the grindstone when he works.
Learn the hard way.
Meaning, to learn from one's mistakes.
I used to learn the hard way.
To pull your socks up.
Meaning, to work hard,
to put forth a lot of effort.
That wasn't a difficult task,
so we didn't pull our socks up to accomplish it.
To get your feet under the table.
Meaning, to quickly adapt to new employment or tasks.
Learn to do something new.
This time, Kate quickly got her feet under the table.
Burn the candle at both ends.
Meaning, work day and night at something.
He's been burning the candle at both ends to finish this project.
Knuckle under.
Meaning, stop wasting time and start working.
The sooner you knuckle under and start work, the better.
Put pen to paper.
Meaning, start writing.
She finally put pen to paper and wrote the letter.
Work all the hours that God sends.
Meaning, work as much as possible.
She works all the hours that God sends to support her family.
Work your fingers to the bone.
Meaning, work very hard.
I work my fingers to the bone for you.
Go the extra mile.
Meaning, do more than is expected of you.
She's a hard worker and always goes the extra mile.
Cut corners.
Meaning, to do something the easiest or quickest way.
Cutting corners on case studies will result in careless errors.
It's not rocket science.
Meaning, something is not complicated to understand.
Just look up the answer online.
It's not rocket science.
Get the ball rolling.
Meaning, to get started.
It's time to get the ball rolling on the forecast.
On the back burner.
Meaning, low priority.
Put that report on the back burner and focus on new business.
Change of pace.
Meaning, to do something different from a normal routine.
Company outings are a nice change of pace from our regular work week.