"work like a horse" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-work like a horse.ogg [Australia] Forms: works like a horse [present, singular, third-person], working like a horse [participle, present], worked like a horse [participle, past], worked like a horse [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} work like a horse (third-person singular simple present works like a horse, present participle working like a horse, simple past and past participle worked like a horse)
  1. (simile, idiomatic, informal) To work very hard; to toil. Tags: idiomatic, informal Synonyms: work like a dog, work like a mule, work like a nailer, work like a Trojan Related terms: workhorse, piss like a racehorse, eat like a horse Translations (to work very hard; toil): dolgozik, mint egy ló (Hungarian), 소처럼 일하다 (socheoreom ilhada) (Korean), trabajar como un condenado (Spanish), dar el callo (Spanish), batirse el cobre (Spanish), quần quật (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-work_like_a_horse-en-verb-ipYW9ZtA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English positive polarity items, English similes

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