| 释义 |
work one's fingers to the boneWork very hard: Auntie can work her fingers to the bone, but it’s Miss Green that gets the thanks...- We are working our fingers to the bone to try and rescue our comrades, but at the moment we have yet to locate where their screams were coming from.
- I've worked my fingers to the bone, cleaning, organizing and even releasing to the trash bin things I no longer need.
- ‘We lived in a tiny little flat, and had no money, and my mother had to work her fingers to the bone,’ Carol says.
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