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put nose to the grindstone

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put one's nose to the grindstone

Fig. to keep busy doing one's work. (Also with have and get, as in the examples.) The boss told me to put my nose to the grindstone. I've had my nose to the grindstone ever since I started working here. If the other people in this office would get their noses to the grindstone, more work would get done.

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put (one's) nose to the grindstone

To work in earnest.

See also: grindstone, nose, put