roll up one’s sleeves

(verb) to begin 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, start rolling up your sleeves. If you keep working hard, you’ll be successful one day!

The young football player is going to roll up his sleeves 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 rolled up my sleeves and exercised every day.
A: Fantastic!

From the Blogs:

Roll up your sleeves for the flu shot!

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Similar idioms:

1. work one’s fingers to the bone
2. buckle down
3. bust one’s ass
4. keep one’s nose to the grindstone
5. knuckle down
6. work like a dog
7. put one’s shoulder to the wheel
8. roll out the red carpet
9. knock oneself out
10. pull one’s weight
11. rick roll
12. roll in