daily grind | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)Thedifficult,routine, ormonotonoustasksofdailywork.As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave thedaily grindand travel more.2014November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, inThe Guardian:“Why bother with thedaily grindwhen you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.

Examples:

EN: They're happy forever # because they drift away from the daily grind # how wonderful it is to be in love # when the hearts beat # how wonderful it is to be in love # when the eyes ask
ES: Cuando te tengo sólo para mí, mi mundo brilla de felicidad. Es maravilloso estar enamorado, cuando los corazones laten al unísono. Es maravilloso estar enamorado, cuando los ojos hablan.
EN: ♪ I am sure this point of view Will ease the daily grind ♪
ES: Seguro que esta visión aligerará la rutina diaria.
EN: We're tired of the daily grind.
ES: Ya estamos hartos de la rutina.
EN: - They have it rough for a while. But we have the killing daily grind with no glory in it.
ES: -Ellos pasan algún mal rato, pero aquí uno se agota sin gloria ni provecho en esta lucha diaria.
EN: No daily grind, no budget problems, no taxes or debts or family to support.
ES: Sin rutina diaria, sin problemas de presupuesto, sin puestos o deudas que pagar o familia que sostener.
EN: I turn over to my daily grind.
ES: Regresaré a mis quehaceres diarios.
EN: It's the daily grind that's killing at the "Mystifique'.
ES: Lo que mata al Mystifique es la rutina.
EN: After that, it was back to the old daily grind... making plastic flowers and artificial wreaths.
ES: Y después volvemos a la cruda realidad, el trabajo y io demás. Trabajaba en una fábrica de flores artificiales.
EN: Mine talks about the daily grind at the factory, about taking the Metro without paying, about the cops slugging them, the way they slug me.
ES: Habla de su fábrica, habla de su vida diaria. De cuando se meten en el metro sin pagar... cuando los polis les pegan. Como me pegan a mí.
EN: It's a daily grind.
ES: Es una carga diaria.
EN: It would have been hard, unspectacular, a daily grind.
ES: Pero eso cuesta esfuerzo y es poco espectacular. Un trabajo rutinario.
EN: The daily grind you're too proud of has you spouting bull-shit.
ES: Harás tu trabajo de mierda hasta que la mierda te llegue hasta el cuello.
EN: Yeah, why go back to the daily grind of being a lifeguard?
ES: ¿Por qué no vuelves a la dura tarea de socorrista? No te canses.
EN: But without the daily grind.
ES: Pero sin la rutina cotidiana.
EN: I just want to live with you, without the daily grind.
ES: Solo quiero vivir contigo, sin la rutina cotidiana.

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