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donkey work

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donkey work (British, American & Australian, informal, American, informal)

hard, boring work. Why do I have to do all the donkey work while you get to do the interesting stuff?

See also: donkey, work

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In the Tokyo-Glasgow collaboration, "the real donkey work and the part where no one thought we were getting anywhere was the 6 or 7 years of trying to purify enough enzyme to work with," Crozier recalls. Gene find could yield decaffeinated plants by Milius, S. / Science News More results

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