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English
Etymology
From slog + away.
Verb
slog away (third-person singular simple present slogs away, present participle slogging away, simple past and past participle slogged away)
- (intransitive, informal) to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner
2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59:The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories. But such victories are given qualitative value when it is an artist who carries them off
Translations
to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner
— see toil,
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