beaver-away

Verb

(third-person singular simple present beavers away, present participle beavering away, simple past and past participle beavered away)

(idiomatic) To work hard at a task.
She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis.

Origin

From the metaphorical image of a person working as industriously as a beaver building its dam.

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