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nose to the grind·stone

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  1. nose to the grindstoneadverb

    Hard at work.

  2. Etymology: First attested 1532, from John Frith's A Mirror to know Thyself:

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nose to the grindstone in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nose to the grindstone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of nose to the grindstone in a Sentence

  1. Walter Cunningham:

    I’m one of those people that never really looked back. I only recall that when someone asked me after I became an astronaut, all I remember is just kind of keeping my nose to the grindstone and wanting to do the best I could as — I didn’t realize at the time, but that was because I always wanted to be better prepared for the next step. I’ve always been looking to the future. I don’t live in the past.

  2. Julia Louis-Dreyfus:

    It's rough, it's weird, it seems like it keeps getting worse, i don't know, nose to the grindstone, man. We just got to keep powering through and hopefully there will be an end in sight to all the insanity.

  3. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:

    The administration is willing to put its nose to the grindstone in the waning days of Donald Trump presidency to push more proposals.


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