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English
Verb
work someone's ass off (third-person singular simple present works someone's ass off, present participle working someone's ass off, simple past and past participle worked someone's ass off) (American spelling)
- (This entry is a translation hub.) (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) To work, or cause to work, excessively or to the point of exhaustion; see work + someone's ass off.
Translations
to work excessively
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: տքնել (hy) (tkʻnel), կաշվից դուրս գալ (hy) (kašvicʻ durs gal), ոռը ճղել (oṙə čġel) (vulgar)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拼命工作 (pīnmìng gōngzuò), 做牛做馬 / 做牛做马 (zh) (zuòniúzuòmǎ)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: zich uit de naad werken
- Finnish: raataa (fi), tehdä töitä niska limassa, tehdä töitä hiki hatussa
- French: travailler comme un dératé, travailler comme un forcené
- Georgian: წელზე ფეხს იდგამს (c̣elze pexs idgams), წელს იწყვეტს (c̣els ic̣q̇veṭs), თავს აკლავს (tavs aḳlavs)
- German: sich den Arsch aufreißen (de)
- Greek: μου βγαίνει ο κώλος (mou vgaínei o kólos)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: agyondolgozza magát, halálra dolgozza magát, kipurcan, annyit dolgozik, beledöglik a sok munkába
- Italian: farsi un culo così
- Japanese: 身を粉にして働く (みをこにしてはたらく, mi-o konishite hataraku), 馬車馬のように働く (ばしゃうまのようにはたらく, bashauma-no yō-ni hataraku), がむしゃらに働く (がむしゃらにはたらく, gamushara-ni hataraku), 齷齪働く (あくせくはたらく, akuseku hataraku), あくせく働く (akuseku hataraku), 一生懸命に働く (いっしょうけんめいにはたらく, isshōkenmei-ni hataraku)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: dar duro (pt)
- Russian: вка́лывать (ru) (vkályvatʹ) (colloquial), надрыва́ться (ru) (nadryvátʹsja), корпе́ть (ru) (korpétʹ), вьёбывать (vʹjóbyvatʹ) (vulgar) (also commonly distorted as: вья́бывать (vʹjábyvatʹ))
- Spanish: trabajar duro
- Swedish: jobba häcken av sig (sv)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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to cause (someone) to work excessively
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