elbow grease in English

noun
1
hard physical work, especially vigorous polishing or cleaning.
you should be able to get the rust off with a wire brush and elbow grease

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1. Elbow grease give the best polish.

2. Pioneering vision is required, and elbow grease!

3. Elbow grease gives the best polish. 

4. It certainly saved a lot of elbow grease. Sentencedict.com

5. Grant: Elbow grease? can I buy that? Is it expensive?

6. The polish needs a certain amount of elbow grease to apply.

7. The stain will come off. It just takes some elbow grease.

8. Using the right tool can save a lot of elbow grease.

9. A little soap and elbow grease ought to clean it right up.

10. You'll need to use some elbow grease to get that floor clean.

11. Maybe you could improve it if you use a lot of elbow grease.

12. If you use a bit of elbow grease you'll get the floor clean.

13. They now need to put some real elbow grease into promoting the product.

14. Hopefully, this knowledge will save many householders a great deal of elbow grease!

15. I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub, putting in plenty of elbow grease.

16. The young man needs to use a little elbow grease; he is too slack altogether.

17. Removing the old paint can be extremely hard work and involves lots of elbow grease.

18. The pot is so dirty that no amount of elbow grease will get it clean.

19. Cleaning Thanks to the availability of steam, cleaning is now a simple task, taking very little effort and no elbow grease.

20. The Cockpits are in excellent, restorable condition and really only require a little elbow grease to refit and repaint so they look their finest

21. Also known as bow saws, these Bucksaws harken back to the days when a simple saw and some elbow grease was the essential staple tool out in the Canadian bush.

22. Our Birchbark canoes are handmade in the traditional Iron Age style, homemade on the ground, in the old way with a few iron tools and a lot of elbow grease.

23. The range features an array of numbered cake tins, electric kitchen scales and even Anelectric stand mixer for [pounds sterling]60to take the elbow grease out of perfecting your cake mix consistency.

24. Clogged drains are always a hassle, but some, like a plugged P-trap under the sink or a stopped-up toilet, requires only a wrench, a plunger and a little elbow grease to unclog