Meaning of yeoman's service | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Arduous work, performed in a vigorous, committed manner.
   idiomatic
2. Reliable, useful, capable service.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: good job”

“He hath done yeoman's service, and proved himself staunch and faithful.”

“I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair and labour'd much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.”

“[O]n many occasions his liberality did him genuine yeoman's service.”

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