Meaning of hard yakka | Babel Free

Definitions

Hard work.

Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable

Examples

“The men who did all the hard yakka believed in a short cut – shoot the bastards; it was cheaper and easier.”

“somebody sits down and does the solid, hard yakka of talking his way through with the waterside workers and with the union movement generally”

“At the age of sixteen, boy it was hard yakka, pouring fifty ton of red hot molten gun metal from the big firebrick lined oil furnace almost every day of the working week.”

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