beaver away | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toworkhardat a task.She won't be going out much, as she'sbeavering awayon her thesis.1979June 28, “Feedback: Trouble at th’ Laboratory”, inNew Scientist,page1103:The most obvious impact of the strike was the “havoc” created at Glasgow and London’s Heathrow airports by striking air traffic controllers (who joined the strike in solidarity and are not themselves directly involved in the dispute). But quietly and without fuss, thousands of scientists normallybeavering awayin seclusion downed microscopes, test tubes, and oscilloscopes.1988,Michael Francis Atiyah,An Interview with Michael Atiyah: Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers, General Papers,page299:I was thinking more of the tendency today for people to develop whole areas of mathematics on their own, in a rather abstract fashion. They just go onbeavering away.2004, Michael Coulson,An Insider’s Guide to the Mining Sector, published2011,unnumbered page:On the other side there was a floor to ceiling partition, on which the mining share prices and dealing boards were fixed, separating the mining sales desk from the specialist mining research group whobeavered awaybehind the partition.2023November 24, Placeholder McD, Liryn, HarryBlank, “SCP-7243”, inSCP Foundation‎[1], archived fromthe originalon3 October 2024:"I'm still baffled at what you were able to accomplish. The rubberband effect would have lasted at least another... well, it could have lasted ten years without youbeavering awayin there. Maybe longer. I couldn't... we couldn't have waited that long. We needed you back, and here you are."

Examples:

EN: I'm in no mood to beaver away for free.
ES: No tengo ningún interés en trabajar duro gratis.
EN: You'll beaver away for peanuts, or else go to jail.
ES: Trabajarás por centavos o irás a la cárcel.
EN: Put your beaver away.
ES: ¡La tía guarra! Pues no me ha enseñado el tupé...
ID: Masukkan "berang-berangmu".
EN: Where you fucking beaver away to get the shit you're told you need to have by some fucking asshole that's gonna tell you what a great big success you are once you get it all?
ES: ¿Esclavizarte para comprar la mierda que te indica un puto idiota que te dice que serás un gran éxito al tenerla?
ID: Dimana kau harus bekerja keras untuk melakukan yang diperintahkan padamu oleh seorang keparat yang akan bilang kau akan jadi orang sukses setelah dapatkan itu semua?
EN: Like Solzhenitsyn laboring in Vermont, I shall beaver away in exile.
ID: Seperti Solzhenitsyn yang bekerja di Vermont,Aku akan bekerja di pengasingan.
ID: Seperti Solzhenitsyn yang bekerja di Vermont,Aku juga harus bekerja di pengasingan.

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