| 词汇 | peg away |
| 释义 | Idiom plug away (at something) and peg away (at something) Theme: WORK to keep trying something; to keep working at something.John kept pegging away at the trumpet until he became pretty good at it.I'm not very good at it, but I keep plugging away. Phr V peg away pegs, pegging, pegged peg away old-fashioned to continue doing something that is difficult in order to achieve the result you wantoften + atLouise had been pegging away at her books (= studying for a long time) and was looking very tired. peg away verb to labour persistently; to continue to toil UK, 1818peg away BrE informal to work hard at something that is very difficult and takes a long time to get a good result+ at The South African team kept pegging away at Australia, and managed to get them all out for 230 runs.■ SIMILAR TO: slog away BrE informal, plug away informal peg away (at something)To continue trying or working diligently (at something). I'm really not very good at math, but I've got to keep pegging away at it if I want to get into an engineering program. A: "Where's John?" B: "Oh, he's out in the garden pegging away." peg away(at something) Go to plug away (at something). |
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