work (one's) butt off

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work (one's) butt off

To work really hard (on or at something). I know you thought it was just a silly New Year's resolution, but I've been working my butt off at the gym! Sally and Jim work their butts off when we hold our consumer conference each year. I don't know what I'd do without them!

work one’s butt off

verb

See work one’s tail off

See also: butt, off, work

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Hopefully this is a wake-up call that we need to come out and work our butts off every game."

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Second, we need to work our butts off to help Obama fulfill this promise.

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"It is easy for people to get on our case and say we are just not good enough but we work our butts off all the year around.

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"We work our butts off to make that happen, because we understand that any family man that ain't seen his family for four months, it's time for him to go see his family.

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