to work like crazy

Examples

• All

• For the next six weeks, I worked like crazy to meet the project deadline.

• I have been working like crazy from home when not running and doing errands.

  Blog text (12)

• So I start working like crazy to get there.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Christmas is coming, and for some, it means working like crazy to have the perfect holiday but being too tired to enjoy it.

  Blog text (34)

• I'm currently working like crazy on a new film.

  Garbo: Where Did You Go? (2024)

• We all worked like crazy two weekends ago and got the job done.

  Blog text (22)

• But still, we were working like crazy animals, rushing from 6 a.m. to midnight every day.

  Blog text (5)

• Plus, I've been working like crazy.

  Single White Female (1992)

• But we can work like crazy to show the way by preserving and increasing our examples of fair play here at home.

  Blog text (27)

• You've got to dig deep and work like crazy, and that's when you'll find out what you're really made of during those hard times.

Synonyms

O

to overwork

vsto work like crazy

15 4.1

To make someone work too much so they become very tired or ill

is extreme hard effort but does not imply others caused the excess

W

to work one's ass off

vsto work like crazy

• Offensive

13 8.4

Try very hard for a long time to do something

is similar but can be used more broadly and informally

W

to work like a dog

vsto work like crazy

• Informal

8 3.4

Spend a lot of time doing hard, tiring tasks

is intense and sustained but not always emphasizing lack of reward

W

to work one's fingers to the bone

vsto work like crazy

• Informal

4 7.4

Do very hard, long jobs until you are very tired

is intense and sustained but may apply beyond physical labour

W

to work like a horse

vsto work like crazy

• Informal

1 3.6

To use a lot of energy to do a hard job for a long time

is equally hard but focuses on steady power rather than tiredness

M

to moil

vsto work like crazy

• Archaic

1 9.9

To work very hard, often at a physical or long job

is the same hard effort but the key stresses greater intensity or duration

W

to work to the bone

vsto work like crazy

• Informal

6.0

To do very hard, long tasks until you are very tired

is intense and long lasting but not always painfully exhausting

B

to break one's back

vsto work like crazy

• Informal

6.0

To work very hard at something until you are very tired

is about extreme effort often implying physical suffering rather than general hard toil

B

to blaze away at

vsto work like crazy

• Informal

7.1

To work on a task with a lot of energy for a long time

is similar but stresses frantic or prolonged effort rather than quick intensity

Antonyms

R

to rest

816 1.0

To stop activity to relax or sleep and get energy back

T

to take a break

496 1.4

To stop doing something for a short time to rest or relax before continuing

How Hard

to slave

47 5.3

to work like crazy

• Informal

3 4.8

to work like a dog

• Informal

8 3.4

hard work

355 1.6

work

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology