do (all) the donkey work
UK informalto do the hard, boring part of a job:
Why should I do all the donkey work while you sit around doing nothing?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of duty idiom
- labour
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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