Examples of 'elbow grease' in a sentence

Meaning of "elbow grease"

The phrase 'elbow grease' is often used metaphorically to describe the physical effort or hard work required to complete a task or achieve a desired outcome. It suggests that diligent and persistent effort is needed to get something done, similar to the act of vigorously scrubbing or polishing with one's elbow as an old-fashioned cleaning technique
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  • Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.

How to use "elbow grease" in a sentence

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Elbow grease ai not gonna fix this.
I know both elbow grease and elocution.
Never understood the term elbow grease.
Got a lot of elbow grease there today.
She wants to save us a bit of elbow grease.
Just put some elbow grease into it.
This is going to take some serious elbow grease.
Nothing a little elbow grease will not cure.
I can rebuild it with a little elbow grease.
Elbow grease and a lot of luck.
It just needs a bit more elbow grease.
A bit of elbow grease and it will be as good as new.
Nobody said anything about elbow grease.
Put some elbow grease behind that stirring.
Impeccable taste and a little elbow grease.

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Put a little elbow grease into it.
We need something more than elbow grease.
Elbow grease for ammunition.
Might take a little more elbow grease.
A little soap and elbow grease ought to clean it right up.
It will work with some elbow grease.
Put some elbow grease in it.
With a great deal of gratuitous elbow grease.
Put a little elbow grease in it.
This is gonna take some serious elbow grease.
Elbow grease and sweat.
Working the rag with elbow grease.
Sweat and elbow grease moves the world forward.
It needs a great deal of elbow grease to work.
Must be the elbow grease that makes it taste so good.
We are talking a bucket of bolts and some elbow grease.
Let us put a little elbow grease into this.
Let us roll up our sleeves and apply a little elbow grease.
They say elbow grease.
So roll up your sleeves and give it some elbow grease.
Put some elbow grease.
All it takes is the right cleanser and a little elbow grease.
Use some elbow grease.
You should lean over and use your elbow grease.
Use normal soap and elbow grease to clean them.
But you could all use a little more elbow grease.
A lot of elbow grease here.
It just takes a little elbow grease.
A little soap and elbow grease ought to clean this right up.
Sure took a lot of elbow grease.
With a lot of elbow grease you might swing it in three hours.
We all it needs is a little elbow grease.
More elbow grease.
Make that a truckload of elbow grease.
Bit of elbow grease.

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