slog away
slog away verb: to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner.
Verb
slog away (third-person singular simple present slogs away, present participle slogging away, simple past and past participle slogged away)
- to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner
- The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories. But such victories are given qualitative value when it is an artist who carries them off[…]2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59
Forms of slog away
| third-person singular present | slogs away |
|---|---|
| present participle | slogging away |
| past participle | slogged away |
| past | slogged away |
Origin of slog away
From slog + away.
Questions about slog away
- What does slog away mean?
- Slog away means to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner.
- What part of speech is slog away?
- Slog away is a verb.
- What is the past tense of slog away?
- The past tense of slog away is slogged away.
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