Idiom
donkey work
Meaning
Work that is difficult, boring, and routine.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I hate doing the donkey work for this project.”
“The interns spent the entire afternoon doing the donkey work of sorting through thousands of old files.”
“While the lead architect designed the building's striking facade, his assistants were left to perform the tedious donkey work of drafting every minor technical detail.”
Examples
simple
“I hate doing the donkey work for this project.”
contextual
“The interns spent the entire afternoon doing the donkey work of sorting through thousands of old files.”
complex
“While the lead architect designed the building's striking facade, his assistants were left to perform the tedious donkey work of drafting every minor technical detail.”
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