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in the trenches

in the trenches prepositional phrase: working or operating in the most active and difficult parts of a job or business.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Working or operating in the most active and difficult parts of a job or business.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, trenches: on the front lines of trench warfare.

Synonyms of in the trenches

Questions about in the trenches

What does in the trenches mean?
In the trenches means working or operating in the most active and difficult parts of a job or business.
What part of speech is in the trenches?
In the trenches is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the trenches in the dictionary

  1. in the thick of
  2. in the thick of it
  3. in the throes of
  4. in the throws of
  5. in the toilet
  6. in the trenches
  7. in the twinkling of a bedpost
  8. in the twinkling of a bedstaff
  9. in the twinkling of an eye
  10. in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
  11. in the vein of

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