"echar el quilo" meaning in Spanish

See echar el quilo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: echo el quilo [first-person, present, singular], eché el quilo [first-person, preterite, singular], echado el quilo [participle, past]
Head templates: {{es-verb}} echar el quilo (first-person singular present echo el quilo, first-person singular preterite eché el quilo, past participle echado el quilo)
  1. (idiomatic) To work very hard. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-echar_el_quilo-es-verb-G2CpYKDx Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header
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          "ref": "1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 333:",
          "text": "Cuando Jesucristo y San Pedro andaban por el mundo, no siempre encontraban almas caritativas que los socorriesen, y en muchas ocasiones tuvieron que buscarse el sustento con el sudor de sus frentes. Una de estas veces, en que al Santo le tocó echar el quilo y arañarse cruelmente las manos por recoger un puñado de trigo que unos arrieros habían dejado caer entre las zarzas del camino, el pobre viejo se encaró con su maestro y le dijo […]",
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        "(idiomatic) To work very hard."
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