keep your nose to the grindstone

Sens

to keep working hard without stopping

Travailler dur sans relâche.

Exemples

1. 1Ben kept his nose to the grindstone all summer and passed every module.
2. 2If you keep your nose to the grindstone, the backlog will be gone by Friday.
3. 3Aisha keeps her nose to the grindstone while the rest of us chat.
4. 4You cannot keep your nose to the grindstone for forty years without a break.
5. 5Do you really keep your nose to the grindstone every single evening?

Grammaire

keep et le possessif changent tous deux, et le possessif s'accorde avec le sujet. On garde nose au singulier même quand le sujet est au pluriel.

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