daily grind
Noun
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Noun
daily grind (plural daily grinds)
- (idiomatic) The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.
- As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.
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