donkey work in English

noun
1
the boring or laborious part of a job; drudgery.
supervisors who get a research student to do the donkeywork

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1. Why should I do all the donkey work while you sit around doing nothing?

2. I did the donkey work but I hired a professional builder for the tricky bits.

3. 28 I did the donkey work but I hired a professional builder for the tricky bits.

4. One of the joys of the Atlas is the availability of mules to do the donkey work of load carrying.

5. 19 This has its own 80188 processor on-board, so the cache relieves the main processor of some of the donkey work.