juggling work and family
- noun
:
conciliar trabajo y familia
- Learning how to effectively juggling work and family is essential for maintaining a balanced life.
Examples
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Many parents find juggling work and family to be a constant challenge.
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After she started her new job, juggling work and family became even harder.
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Support from employers can make juggling work and family much easier for employees.
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She is juggling work and family effectively.
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Is he juggling work and family well?
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Many parents find that juggling work and family responsibilities can be quite challenging.
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She mastered the art of juggling work and family to ensure both her career and children thrived.
Synonyms
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A situation where a person manages several important tasks at once, often with difficulty
How Demanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'managing both one's job and personal family responsibilities' follows directly from combining 'juggle' (to balance or manage many tasks) with the concrete nouns 'work' and 'family'. Although figurative, this is a regular, productive metaphorical extension that maps clearly onto the constituent meanings and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the component words should infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase juggling work and family shows a juggler trying to keep many balls in the air, where the work and family balls need constant attention. So, it means 'managing both a job and family at the same time'.