"work one's tail off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-work one's tail off.ogg [Australia] Forms: work tail off [canonical], works one's tail off [present, singular, third-person], working one's tail off [participle, present], worked one's tail off [participle, past], worked one's tail off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=work (one's) tail off}} work (one's) tail off (third-person singular simple present works one's tail off, present participle working one's tail off, simple past and past participle worked one's tail off)
  1. (slang) Less vulgar synonym of work one's ass off. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-work_one's_tail_off-en-verb-qBepf7MR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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