On top of your work meaning

1  drudgery, effort, elbow grease    [facetious]  exertion, grind    [informal]  industry, labour, slog, sweat, toil, travail    [literary]  

2  bread and butter    [informal]  business, calling, craft, duty, employment, job, line, livelihood, métier, occupation, office, profession, pursuit, trade  

3  assignment, chore, commission, duty, job, stint, task, undertaking  

4  achievement, composition, creation, handiwork, oeuvre, opus, performance, piece, production  

5  art, craft, skill, workmanship  

6  out of work    idle, jobless, on the dole    [Brit. informal]  on the street, out of a job, unemployed  
    vb  

7  break one's back, drudge, exert oneself, labour, peg away, slave, slog [away], sweat, toil  

8  be employed, be in work, do business, earn a living, have a job  

9  act, control, direct, drive, handle, manage, manipulate, move, operate, ply, use, wield  

10  function, go, operate, perform, run  

11  cultivate, dig, farm, till  

12  fashion, form, handle, knead, make, manipulate, mould, process, shape  

13  be agitated, convulse, move, twitch, writhe  

14    [often with]     up  arouse, excite, move, prompt, provoke, rouse, stir  

15  accomplish, achieve, bring about, carry out, cause, contrive, create, effect, encompass, execute, implement  

16  force, make one's way, manoeuvre, move, progress  

17    [informal]  arrange, bring off, contrive, exploit, fiddle    [informal]  fix    [informal]  handle, manipulate, pull off, swing    [informal]  
  
Antonyms    
,     n  

1  ease, leisure, relaxation, rest  

2  entertainment, hobby, holiday, play, recreation, retirement, spare time, unemployment  

3  child's play    [informal]  
    vb  

7  have fun, mark time, play, relax, skive    [Brit. slang]  take it easy  

10  be broken, be out of order  

15  counteract, nullify, prevent, reverse  

life work    
business, calling, career, interest, mission, occupation, profession, purpose, pursuit, vocation, work  

out of work    
idle, jobless, laid off, on the dole    [Brit.]  out of a job, redundant, unemployed  

work-out    
drill, exercise, exercise session, practice session, training, training session, warm-up  

1  accomplish, achieve, attain, win  

2  calculate, clear up, figure out, find out, puzzle out, resolve, solve, suss [out]    [slang]  

3  arrange, construct, contrive, develop, devise, elaborate, evolve, form, formulate, plan, put together  

4  be effective, flourish, go as planned, go well, prosper, prove satisfactory, succeed  

5  come out, develop, evolve, go, happen, pan out    [informal]  result, turn out  

6  do exercises, drill, exercise, practise, train, warm up  

7  add up to, amount to, come to, reach, reach a total of  

work up    
agitate, animate, arouse, enkindle, excite, foment, generate, get [someone] all steamed up    [slang]  incite, inflame, instigate, move, rouse, spur, stir up, wind up    [informal]  

• I rest my case  n. Phrase used when someone has brought all the evidences to support his point of view; "I'm done with explanations"
• ELI5  abbr. acron. Short for "Explain it like I'm 5".
  

  Most often, it’s used to explain science or technology in layman’s terms.

• be stuffed to the gills  v. be satiated/sated ; you might say 'I'm stuffed to the gills' to refuse more food meaning that you can't possibly eat any more or as a way of complimenting someone’s cooking because it suggests that the food was so good that you ate more than you meant to.
  

  Jennifer: More potatoes? Adele: Oh, no thank you, Jen! I’m stuffed to the gills. What a delicious meal!

• AFAIK  exp. acronym of As Far As I Know, from the best of my knowledge, according to the information that I have
• top-down  adj. something that is top-down comes from the top of a hierarchy and is passed down to the lower ranking members
• I feel queer  n. I feel weird
  

  Depuis plusieurs ans, "Queer" n'est plus commun pour se sentir mal. Ça veut dire "gai" ou homosexuel. Weird est beaucoup plus simple sans avoir deux sens.

• top that!  exp. You say 'top that!' when you have achieved something and you want to challenge other people to do better
  

  I know four celebrities - top that!

• grunt work  n. grunt work is hard, uninteresting work
  
• I can't take it  exp. I can't understand it, I can't believe it, I can't accept it
• muffin top  exp. informal term used to describe the flab in the abdominal area rolling over tight clothes
  

  from the resemblance with a muffin whose top exceeds the margins of the paper it is baked in

• so am I  exp. me too
• OMG  exp. Oh My God
• omw  adv. on my way
  
• my creys  exp. an expression used to when you are about to cry
  
• pardon my French  id. the phrase is uttered in an attempt to excuse the user of profanity or curses in the presence of those offended by it under the pretense of the words being part of a foreign language
  
• a bang up job  exp. work perfectly performed
  

  When I asked the students to do their homework, they did a bang up job.

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