10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DONKEY-WORK»
Discover the use of
donkey-work in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
donkey-work and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
You would have thought that having two curious Siamese cats and a tortoise with wanderlust was enough. Not so for Doreen and her husband Charles, who decide to take on a baby donkey to keep the nettles under control in the orchard.
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Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word
Chapter Ten “Work, Donkey, Work” One day Wankowicz deposited on my desk a
postcard showing a small donkey hitched up to a two-wheel trolley overpacked “
to the hilt” with crates. The poor donkey wore a truly pained expression. Shortly ...
Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, 2013
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
2005 The Register I get the Systems guys to do all the donkey work once I'm sure
it's up and running properly. for donkey's years for a very long time. informal o For
donkey'syears is a pun referring to the length of a donkey's ears and playing ...
donkey work hard, unrewarding part of any task: We now have a computer to do
the donkey work. talk the hind leg off a donkey (derog) to talk a great deal and for
a long time: / like his little girl, but she would talk the hind leg off a donkey! door ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
[From a pun on 'donkey's ears' — which are very long.] donkey work hard,
unrewarding part of any task: We now have a computer to do the donkey work.
talk the hind leg off a donkey (derog) to talk a great deal and for a long time: / like
his little ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
It does the 'donkey work'.—9. A sewing-machine: RN lowerdeck: since ca. 1890. (
Goodenough, 1901; Knock.) The pl. donkeys tends to mean 'sewing-machines,
mechanics' tools, sea-chests' (Knock).10. See ride the donkey; talk the hind leg ...
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Seasons of Grace: Inspirational Resources for the Christian Year
They do the donkey-work, quite literally, and they were highly prized, especially
the females. I don't think they were ever sacrificed — perhaps they were more
valuable alive. For example, there was a donkey who spoke: Balaam's ass.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... with responsibilities in a ship's engine room: [as modifier] a donkeyman
greaser. donkey work 7noun [mass noun] Brit. informal the boring or laborious
part of a job; drudgery: supervisors who get a research student to do the donkey
work.
A an animal like a small horse with long ears "idioms do (all) the donkey work uk
informal to do the hard, boring part of a job: Why should I do all the donkey work
while you sit around doing nothing? . donkey's years uk informal a very long ...
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Revising & Editing: Using Models and Checklists to Promote ...
Duty or Donkey Work? Why do teachers in all subject areas spend so much of
their valuable time on the donkey work of editing their students' writing? Marking
pens in hand, day after day, they meticulously hunt through class set after class
set ...
