"picar pedra" meaning in Catalan

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  "etymology_text": "Compare Spanish picar piedra.",
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    {
      "form": "pico pedra",
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        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "piquí pedra",
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    {
      "form": "picat pedra",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "english": "Look, in 2010 this was very difficult. If we wanted to do theatre, we had to make a big effort.",
          "ref": "2019 June 13, Toni Polo Bettonica, quoting Joan Yago, “El teatre dels fills de la crisi”, in El País",
          "text": "Mira, el 2010 la cosa estava molt xunga. Si volíem fer teatre havíem de picar pedra.",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2021, Oriol Romeu, Una temporada inoblidable […], page 205",
          "text": "Amb l'esforç que costa poder agafar una bona seguida! I quan la tens, que difícil que és mantindre-la. Però què hi farem, tocarà continuar picant pedra. Ara, hi ha una cosa que tinc clara: a picar pedra no em guanyarà ningú.",
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        "to grind, to chip away (to make a lengthy and laborious effort)"
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          "grind",
          "grind"
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          "chip away",
          "chip away"
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  "word": "picar pedra"
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        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "picat pedra",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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          "english": "Look, in 2010 this was very difficult. If we wanted to do theatre, we had to make a big effort.",
          "ref": "2019 June 13, Toni Polo Bettonica, quoting Joan Yago, “El teatre dels fills de la crisi”, in El País",
          "text": "Mira, el 2010 la cosa estava molt xunga. Si volíem fer teatre havíem de picar pedra.",
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          "ref": "2021, Oriol Romeu, Una temporada inoblidable […], page 205",
          "text": "Amb l'esforç que costa poder agafar una bona seguida! I quan la tens, que difícil que és mantindre-la. Però què hi farem, tocarà continuar picant pedra. Ara, hi ha una cosa que tinc clara: a picar pedra no em guanyarà ningú.",
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      ],
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  "word": "picar pedra"
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