Idiom
hard at work
Meaning
Labouring with great effort and diligence; working hard.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The team is hard at work on the new project.”
“I walked into the office and found everyone hard at work finishing the report before the deadline.”
“Despite the late hour and the exhaustion visible on their faces, the researchers remained hard at work, determined to solve the complex equation before dawn.”
Examples
simple
“The team is hard at work on the new project.”
contextual
“I walked into the office and found everyone hard at work finishing the report before the deadline.”
complex
“Despite the late hour and the exhaustion visible on their faces, the researchers remained hard at work, determined to solve the complex equation before dawn.”
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