labor of love
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- noun
- /ˈleɪbər əv lʌv/
- Informal
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trabajo por amor al arte
- To say that being a farmer is a labor of love would be an understatement.
And it's been such a labor of love, and it's just so cute and fun.
- And it's been such a labor of love, and it's just so cute and fun.
- And yeah, it's been a real labor of love for me.
- So you put that back into it and it's been, it's been a labor of love my entire life.
- But for us, we're really happy to share this because this has been primarily a labour of love for us.
- I mean, it's, it's a labour of love on that point, you know, our, our stuff is, is not to pay ourselves.
- I took a stupefying pay cut to work for the bank, but I did it as a labor of love because I'm here to serve and, and it was a great experience.
- This is a little labor of love, love child between Justin and my dad.
- Small labor of love, deeply satisfying when they work, horrible when they don't.
- Can you tell me about that really quickly It I I'm doing it was a labor of love for me and I enjoyed every minute.
- It was a labor of love ladies and part of me through it was like one of my children.
Examples
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Red Pill Report is a labor of love for the many contributors who post here.
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I'm here to tell you, this book was a labor of love.
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This has been a labor of love for at least a few years now.
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So you put that back into it and it's been, it's been a labor of love my entire life.
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But for us, we're really happy to share this because this has been primarily a labour of love for us.
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This has been a labor of love by Crazy Russian and myself to bring these systems to market.
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And it's been such a labor of love, and it's just so cute and fun.
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But it was a labor of love.
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A real labor of love, as we say.
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Building leather armor is a labor of love for a Texarkana man.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'work done for pleasure or passion' is directly derivable from combining 'labor' (work) with 'love' (affection), with the preposition 'of' marking the motivating source. This compositional pattern (work motivated by love) is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will very likely infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Labor of love paints a simple picture: someone doing hard labor because of love — for family, art, or a cause — not for pay. That's why it means 'work done for pleasure, not for money'.