10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEAT ONE'S GUTS OUT»
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
Yuri Dolgopolov. swallow the Bible swallow the dictionary (swallow the Bible)
swear against someone swear at someone (swear against someone) sweat it out
sweat on the top line (be on the top line) sweat one's guts out (sweat it out)
sweep ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... culture vulture; motorhead; petrolhead An enthusiasm kick Obsessed hung up
23. Effort To make one's maximum effort go for broke; go for the doctor; pull one's
finger out; sweat blood; sweat one's guts out An attempt bash; burl; lash; whack; ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
To work hard ; to drudge ; to put in licks(q.V. ) ; also to sweat one's guts out. Cf.
modern (public school) swat (or swot) = fagging, hard study, especially
mathematics, whenceswot also = a mathematician ;and as ve?b, to fag,orstudy
hard (see ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Ex SWEATER, 2. sweat one's guts out . To work extremely hard: (mostly lower
class) coll: late C.19–20. sweat-rag . A pocket-handkerchief: Australia: C.20.
Lawson, 1902. sweat the purser . To waste Government stores: naval: from ca
1840.
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Fun with Chinese Characters 1: The Straits Times Collection 1
74916 “'r'\t sens ea am an ea Example: m§i thing méi ting méi gut/l méi jié mail Ii
mil ming méi nfing mzii xiéo sing for a living seller betray one's country selling
price spare no effort sweat one's guts out show off prostitution lulhareahqalaio Ti
...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
cf. sweat (one's) guts out. sweat-box. A cell for prisoners waiting to go before the
magistrate: low 5.: from ca. 1875, though unrecorded before 1888 (Churchward's
Blackbira'ing: OED). In C.20 US, sweat-box is the application of third-degree ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z
... quite frightened, sweating like a pig, and looked down on the main deck. to
sweat one's guts out; to slog one's guts out coll. x izgarati na poslu; teSko dirinliti;
kon- josati x I'm not going to sweat my guts out for only 250 a week. x "Normally, ...
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The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms : 4,000 Idiomatic ...
to slog/sweat one's guts out (fam., Br.E.), to work one's butt off (fam., Am.E.), to
work one's tail off (fam.), to keep one's nose to the grindstone (fig.) O Les hice
sudar la hiel I made them work their butts off Igave them a [good] run for their
money.
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Longman English-Chinese dictionary of English idioms
(The Listener 17 Oct 74) [v] mte$mm.m&m&±r?,m&. sweat" one's guts out see at
guts SWEEP /swip; swi:p/ make" a clean sweep not fml to cause a complete
change, e.g. by getting rid of unwanted persons or things |ftjg?tl& : SrSlijS J*§ :
The ...
Uo The rebel army broke through the enemy encirclement after a desperate fight.
0 do one's utmost; sweat one's guts out; work one's fingers to the bone: ffe'FKf :&ii
.&llftfl|i|S(Aiiff ~ XlTo He refused to sweat his guts out for such meagre earnings.
