grunt work

名词 n.
/ɡɹʌ̃nʔwɝk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Work (especially that which is heavy, repetitive or mindless) that is considered undesirable and therefore delegated to underlings. idiomatic,uncountable
    — He plans to hire somebody to do the grunt work of digging the trenches for the pipes.

词源

From the verb grunt.
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