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How to understand "I work my fingers to the bone everyday."?
I saw a sentence says, " I work my fingers to the bone everyday." what does this mean? Thanks.
Oct 9, 2015 8:35 AM
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It is a figure of speech meaning "to work very hard." Usually some kind of difficult manual labor, such as farming.
www,mdbg.net says: "脱皮掉肉"
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Cecelia
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Chinese (Mandarin), English
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