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单词 peg away
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peg away

informal Work hard at or try to achieve something over a long period: the South African attack kept pegging away...
  • The bottom of their post must have been square, but we kept pegging away and in the second half we got the goal and I think we deserved to share the points.
  • In contrast, they kept pegging away and, with cooler finishing and a dash of the luck that has deserted them in recent weeks, that 50-point barrier would now be breachable at the weekend.
  • Poppleton kept pegging away and deservedly equalised when a through ball found Christopher Green, who gave Harry Wright in the Real Cliffe goal no chance.

Synonyms

work hard, work away, hammer away, grind away;
persevere, persist, exert oneself, apply oneself, keep at it, plod, soldier on
informal slog, beaver (away), plug (away), stick at, stick with it
British informal graft, get one's head down
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