Meaning of donkey work | Babel Free

Definitions

Work that is difficult, boring, and routine.

idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work, and even the company's dirty work?”

“Labi said she did not need to carry planks of wood on her head any more, it was donkey work for idiots”

“But what looks like donkeywork is a necessary step in a formulaic approach, a set of prescribed practices that have their own embedded wisdom.”

CEFR level