knuckle down
(verb) to work extremely hard
Example Sentences:
A: How is school going? Are you still studying Engineering?
B: Yeah, but it’s so hard! I study for hours every day!
A: Well, just keep knuckling down. If you keep working hard, you’ll be successful one day!
The young football player is going to knuckle down by practicing every day, so he can play professionally one day.
A: You look great! How did you lose so much weight?
B: Well, I knuckle down and exercised every day.
A: Fantastic!
From the Blogs:
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Similar idioms:
- work one’s fingers to the bone
- work like a dog
- buckle down
- roll up one’s sleeves
- keep one’s nose to the grindstone
- bust one’s ass
- put one’s shoulder to the wheel
- knock oneself out
- pull one’s weight
- bite off more than one can chew
- no pain, no gain
- white knuckle
