work hard and play hard
- idiom
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cultura de trabajar duro y disfrutar
- In our office, we embrace a work hard and play hard philosophy, encouraging both productivity and memorable team outings.
There are these happy, peppy people who just are so positive and they've got energy and they have these the saying they like to work hard and play hard.
- There are these happy, peppy people who just are so positive and they've got energy and they have these the saying they like to work hard and play hard.
Examples
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The team's work hard and play hard approach has led to increased morale and impressive results in their projects.
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Many successful entrepreneurs believe in the motto to work hard and play hard, balancing their professional and personal lives.
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BRASS members work hard and play hard.
Academic text (2014)
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
work + hard + and + play + hard
The phrase is directly compositional: 'work hard' means to work with great effort and 'play hard' means to play/relax intensely, joined by 'and' to indicate both behaviors. This coordinated, literal meaning follows common cross-linguistic patterns and would be immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Work hard and play hard names a way of life or company attitude where people expect hard work followed by energetic play. So it describes 'a culture that values hard, focused work followed by energetic fun'.