work fingers to the bone

work one's fingers to the bone

Cliché to work very hard. I worked my fingers to the bone so you children could have everything you needed. Now look at the way you treat me! I spent the day working my fingers to the bone, and now I want to relax.

work (one's) fingers to the bone

To labor extremely hard; toil or travail.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jodene	JO-deen	English (Rare)
Ellis (2)	EL-is	Welsh
Michelangelo	mee-KE-lahn-je-lo	Italian
Wilfried	VIL-freet	German
Arif	-	Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali
Andrea (2)	AN-dree-ə (English), an-DRAY-ə (English), ahn-DRE-ah (German)	English, German, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Cr