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What is elbow grease?

What is elbow grease? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.
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Inadvertently her success could lead some to assume that all one needs to make it out of the ghetto is determination, elbow grease and a perfect posterior.
They had to depend on sheer initiative and elbow grease, working crazy hours and making cold calls to jumpstart the business.
Here's my favorite boy toy working up some elbow grease, de-furring the couch with a cat-hair-catching sponge.
A little elbow grease, a nice place mat and some dishes, and the table awaited its diner.
With some hard work and elbow grease, the building was cleaned, painted, and filled with many shelves of books.
As an alternative some elbow grease was applied to the kitchen leaving it sparkly and clean!

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