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Dirty work often refers to a task that is physically taxing and mentally boring.
The Ivory Tower is synonymous with schools and academies, where people deal with intellectual work rather than working hard just to be able to pay the bills in the real world.
A person who is off base is someone who, like the baseball playing straying too far from base, is wrong in the head.
If you do something and it blows up in your face, you have failed miserably.
Straight shooting means the speaker is forthright and frank.
Grunt, you see, is the short, low sound we make from the throat, usually when we are doing heavy physical work or when we are unhappy.
When someone doubles down on a certain project, he or she is redoubling their effort in pursuit of a certain risky object or goal.
US President Donald again invited ridicule when he told The Economist that he invented the phrase “prime the pump”.
Whataboutism is a retorting tactic turned into an art form or, seriously, an ideology.
A double-edged sword, as a sister saying goes, that cuts both ways.
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