What does 'Keep your nose to the grindstone' mean?
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If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you work hard and seriously.
- Category: Body and bodily functions
Idioms similar to 'Keep your nose to the grindstone'
- Nose in the air
- Big nose
- On the nose
- Pay through the nose
- Under your nose
- Win by a nose
- Follow your nose
- Keep your nose clean
- No skin off my nose
- Thumb your nose at
- Turn your nose up
- Brown nose
- Powder your nose
- Put somebody's nose out of joint
- Plain as the nose on your face
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
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