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THE WORLD OF WORK - Coggle Diagram
THE WORLD OF WORK
TYPES OF PEOPLE AT WORK
BIG CHEESE (Evidently he was considered a big cheese here, and was greeted by everyone.)
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HIGH FLIER=someone who is extremely successful in their job (Retailing is not generally the first career choice of young high fliers.)
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DIGITAL NORMAD= (To globetrotting digital normads, work is where your laptop is.)
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IDIOMS "WORK HARD"
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through blood, sweat and tears
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PHRASAL VERBS
TO TRUDGE THROUGH STH = to do work or a task slowly and with difficulty (I spent the whole weekend trudging through this report, ans I still haven't finished ut yet.)
TO PLUG AWAY AT = to keep working hard at something (If you keep plugging away at it, your English will improve.)
TO KNUCKLE DOWN (If he doesn’t knuckle down soon, he’ll never get through those exams.)
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TO HAMMER AWAY AT=to work hard and continuously at something (Keep on hammering away at achieving your goals.)
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TYPES OF WORK
GROUNDWORK = work that is done as a preparation for work that will be later The groundwork for next year's conference has already begun.()
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SOMEBODY'S HANDIWORK =something that someone has made or done using their hands in a skilful way (You can hardly believe they are the handiwork of the same artist.)
TOIL = hard unpleasant work done over a long period (There was no time for the arduous toil required to master a foreign language.)
LEGWORK=informal the hard boring work that has to be done in order to achieve something He has a team of volunteers who do most of the legwork for him()
DRUDGERY = hard boring work (Calculators were introduced to relieve students of the drudgery of pencil-and-paper number-crunching.)
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