WORK ONE'S FINGERS TO THE BONE Definition & Meaning

work one's fingers to the bone

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, work one's tail or butt off . Exert oneself, labor very hard, as in She's working her fingers to the bone to support her children , or I work my tail off and then the government takes half my income in taxes . The first hyperbole, with its image of working the skin and flesh off one's fingers, dates from the mid-1800s; the less polite variants date from the first half of the 1900s.

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Ah! that confounded Paris, how one had to work one's fingers to the bone in order to get on.

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What is it then, when one prays every night and morning for a man?—when one would work one's fingers to the bone for him?—when one would die to keep him from sickness and harm?

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