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Example of idiom elbow grease. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Elbow grease hard work that requires a lot of labor or effort. Joe put a lot of elbow grease into cleaning the kitchen.

Elbow grease is an idiom thats been around for hundreds of years in several languages. Save on elbow grease and put the tarnished item in a bowl on top of aluminium foil shiny side up. Painting your house takes some elbow greaseyou have to.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. What does the idiom Elbow Grease mean. Applying elbow grease requires physical effort and such effort is often strenuous and difficult.

Stew in ones own juice. Elbow-grease a derisory Term for Sweat. Heres my favorite boy toy working up some elbow grease de-furring the couch with a cat-hair-catching sponge.

A lot of physical effort. Elbow grease is physical work or labour. Eyes like a hawk.

Just regular wax and some elbow grease. An example of that usage is found in the 1699 A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew. See Idiom of the Day today.