daily grind
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈdeɪli ɡraɪnd/
- Informal
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rutina diaria
- Many people feel overwhelmed by the daily grind of work and household chores.
- escape from the daily grind
- break from the daily grind
- away from the daily grind
I had this image that they just figured out how to make the daily grind just tolerable.
- I had this image that they just figured out how to make the daily grind just tolerable.
- I struggle with the daily grind, trading days for dollars, but you help me make it happen.
- So the process of the daily grind.
- And what you're practicing again is really understanding and, and, and dividing up what I call the daily grinds.
- I struggle with the daily grind trading days for dollars, but you helped me make it happen.
Examples
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So I think it's important for folks to get away from the daily grind from time to time.
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Then I was back to CT and the daily grind.
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Anyway, I got to get back to my daily grind, so....
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In the daily grind, it is easy to lose track of time.
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We mean useful stuff that could really make a difference in your daily grind.
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I struggle with the daily grind, trading days for dollars, but you help me make it happen.
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But the daily grind of life interfering got to me.
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For a long time, I felt like my routines had become a dreaded daily grind.
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When I think "vacation," I imagine idleness, sloth, recovery from the daily grind and rat race.
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I'm looking for August to be much smoother as I'm merging back into the daily grind of things.
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Synonyms
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5.6
Work that is tiring and boring and happens every day
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1.0
A usual order of things a person does every day
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7.0
Boring, hard work that you do again and again
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4.2
A boring repetitive situation that feels never-ending
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5.3
Boring, simple jobs that are necessary and take a lot of time
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3.2
Usual tasks a person does every day
A daily pattern of plain unexciting activities like work and chores
Antonyms
How Tiring
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the monotonous and tiring routine' is directly derivable from combining 'daily' (every day) with 'grind' (hard, monotonous work): the phrase simply denotes the everyday instance of such grinding work. This is a straightforward compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Daily grind may come from the picture of a stone in a mill that grinds grain every day, turning in the same hard movement again and again. So, the phrase compares work that repeats each day to that slow action and means 'a tiring, boring routine'.