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elbow juice

elbow juice noun: synonym of elbow grease.

Noun

elbow juice (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of elbow grease.
    • [F]or unloading in the barn, the hoisting fork is a great saving of time and elbow juice.1860 July 1, Sullivan D. Harris, “Talk about Harvesting and Tools”, in Ohio Cultivator, volume 16, number 13
    • As it turned out, the prairie was not an easy land to tame, the way it looked at first. Everything had to be done with elbow juice, raising the first tents out of bed sheets sewn together, digging the soddy before winter came, a mud house with a mud floor dug into a coulee hillside.1956, Holger Cahill, The Shadow of my Hand, Harcourt Brace, page 64
    Synonyms:
    elbow grease

Synonyms of elbow juice

Questions about elbow juice

What does elbow juice mean?
Elbow juice means synonym of elbow grease.
What part of speech is elbow juice?
Elbow juice is a noun.

Words near elbow juice in the dictionary

  1. elbow dip
  2. elbow dips
  3. elbow grease
  4. elbow joint
  5. elbow joints
  6. elbow juice
  7. Elbow Lake
  8. elbow macaroni
  9. elbow mentalities
  10. elbow mentality
  11. elbow pit

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