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work socks off

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work your socks off

  (informal)

to work very hard The lawyers that I know earn a lot of money but they work their socks off.

See go like clockwork, wear fingers to the bone, drive into the ground, slog guts out, build up a head of steam, perform miracles

See also: off, sock, work