daily grind
daily grind noun: the difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.
Noun
daily grind (plural daily grinds)
- The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.
- As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more.
- “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s...2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
Forms of daily grind
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Questions about daily grind
- What does daily grind mean?
- Daily grind means the difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.
- What part of speech is daily grind?
- Daily grind is a noun.
- What is the plural of daily grind?
- The plural of daily grind is daily grinds.
Words near daily grind in the dictionary
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