Idiom
crank the handle
Meaning
To perform a process; to do some work.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We just need to crank the handle and finish this report.”
“The team had to crank the handle for several hours to process all the customer data before the deadline.”
“Once the initial research phase concluded, the analysts began to crank the handle on the complex statistical models required for the final report.”
Examples
simple
“We just need to crank the handle and finish this report.”
contextual
“The team had to crank the handle for several hours to process all the customer data before the deadline.”
complex
“Once the initial research phase concluded, the analysts began to crank the handle on the complex statistical models required for the final report.”
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