TOILS

Works up a sweat

• Breaks one's back

• Breaks one's back, say

• Busts a gut

• Digs ditches

• Does drudge work

• Doesn't do the job easily

• Drudges

• Exerts elbow grease

• Exhausting efforts

• Grinds

• Labors

• Labors long

• Netting for snaring

• Plugs away

• Slaves

• Slaves away

• Slogs

• Struggles

• Uses elbow grease

• Works

• Works a double shift, e.g.

• Works and works and works

• Works hard

• Works I lost

• Works in the mine, say

• Works like a dog

• Works long and hard

• Works strenuously

• Works very hard