with nose to the grindstone

1 拼命地

into the ground tooth and nail

2 费力地

painfully painstakingly laboriously with nose at the grindstone

3 费力

pick-and-shovel difficult robust stiff uphill diligent sweaty strenuous taxing arduous exacting toilsome laboured painfully painstakingly laboriously pain trouble ado exertion task with nose at the grindstone take the trouble

4 劳苦

grinding painstaking toilsome pain labor trouble fatigue toil plod with nose at the grindstone have a job the hard way

5 劳苦地

with nose at the grindstone the hard way

6 拼命

struggle split a gut for all one is worth into the ground tooth and nail