hard at work

English

Phrase

hard at work

  1. (idiomatic) Labouring with great effort and diligence; working hard.
    I'm sorry I can't make it to the party—I'm going to be hard at work all day.
    • 1959 June, R. A. Young, “A Railway Holiday in Ireland—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 416:
      The relegation of locomotives to storage seemed to be on a very unsystematic basis on all three principal Irish railways: while one member of a class was rusting in a yard, another might be hard at work in revenue-earning service— […] .
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