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 Translation for 'back-breaking work' from English to French
occup.
travail {m} éreintant
back-breaking work [fig.]
Partial Matches
épuisant {adj} {pres-p}back-breaking [work]
exhaustif {adj}back-breaking [fig.]
crevant {adj} {pres-p} [fam.]back-breaking [work]
éreintant {adj}back-breaking [work] [fig.]
usant {adj} {pres-p} [fam.] [travail]back-breaking [work] [fig.]
occup.
retourner à son travail
to get back to work
occup.
retourner à son travail
to go back to work
remonter de l'effet à la causeto work back from effect to cause
mâcher le travail à qn. [loc.]to break the back of the work for sb. [idiom]
rompant {adj} {pres-p}breaking
brisant {adj} {pres-p}breaking
ventilation {f} [action] [de dépenses, déficit, résultats]breaking down
décomposition {f} [de phrase, raisonnement, mouvement]breaking down
matérielphys.tech.
point {m} de rupture
breaking point
bot.T
bourdaine {f} [Frangula alnus]
breaking buckthorn
matérielphys.tech.
limite {f} de rupture
breaking point
révolutionnaire {adj}ground-breaking
fin.
pulvérisation {f} [d'investissements]
breaking up
matériel
charge {f} de rupture
breaking stress
météo.
déferlement {m} [des vagues]
breaking [waves]
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Usage Examples English
  • The thick rabbit and prickly-pear-ridden scrub of the brigalow and belah country was reclaimed from expiring leases in the 1920s and the back-breaking work of rendering it fit for agriculture did not bear fruit until the 1950s when wheat-growing became and remains a highly successful enterprise.
  • The photographs do not show the back-breaking work of cultivation and harvest, but only offer a glimpse of spring plowing.
  • Flat-bottomed boats made of marine plywood carry the sand which has to be dug up from the river bed with waist-high waters – back-breaking work for those involved.
  • Croft work was hard, back-breaking work which yielded a subsistence living.
  • Presumably in other parts of town communist comrades would be undertaking the same back-breaking work and celebrating any high points together in much the same way.

  • In an atmosphere of overwhelming hopelessness and despair, where back-breaking work only leads peasants deeper and deeper into debt, both characters turn to gambling in search of making a quick profit.
  • But George Clausen's depiction of the back-breaking work of "Gathering Potatoes", painted at nearby Dannes in 1887, reflects concerns that are a constant in his output of the time.
  • Lured by the myth of the Gold Mountain (金山), she and her countrymen travel to Canada by the thousands to do the back-breaking work of blasting through the mountains to lay track.
  • While many men were needed for the back-breaking work of hauling a purse seine manually, the same work could be done by fewer men with a power block.
  • Most work was pre-mechanised, so back-breaking [...] work included ploughing the fields.

  • Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as "philanthropists" who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages to generate profit for their masters.
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