Hi guys, I really appreciate all of you watching, because how hard work speaking English can
be sometimes. Now some of you are working hard just to make ends meet. Some of you are
studying hard as well so you are having to work and study at the same time and well I
know that some of you are trying really hard to get a date with your crush. So whatever
your reasons are, I think that working hard is sometimes not enough to show just how hard
that you are trying. Now in today’s lesson I would like to help you to expand your vocabulary
by saying this phrase in many other ways. So please stay tuned with me Kat and we can
go through all the different ways of saying that you are working hard so people can really
appreciate you. Now the first expression that you could use is I’m burning the candle
at both ends. I’m burning the candle at both ends, now this is a way of saying that
you are staying up late at night and you are getting up early to start up working in the
morning, so you are burning the candle at both ends. So if you imagine you’ve got
a candle and its lit at both ends, you are doing everything you can you’re working
hard. An example of a conversation that you might use this phrase that could be, Uh, you
look so worn out, what’s going with you? Ah, I know, it’s just that I’ve be burning
the candle at both ends, working two jobs at once. Burning the candle at both ends.
I hope you’ve got that. Next up is the phrase, I’ll go the extra mile. Now if someone goes
the extra mile, they do more than expected of them. Now this phrase is used especially
when you are in a job, taking instructions from your boss but delivering more than you
are committed to. An example of a conversation that you may use this phrase in could be as
follows, Ah Great you’ve finished this project in record time, plus you’ve been a great
help with the new hires, you’ve really gone the extra mile here. Gone the extra mile,
you have gone the extra mile. I hope that phrase is going to be useful for you. Another
phrase you may want to use is He is pulling his own weight. He is pulling his own weight,
now this means that you do your share of the work you don’t depend on anybody else to
do your work for you. An example of a conversation you may use this phrase in could be like this
I don’t think everyone on this team is pulling their weight, it seems just a few are actually
doing any work. Pulling your own weight now you need to make sure that your job, you are
pulling your weight and not relying on other people. Pulling your own weight. Another phrase
that you may want to use is I am buckling down. Now buckling down means to focus and
to put a lot of energy into a project or a task. Another way you could say is knuckle
down but in this case to buckle down. An example could be, enough of goofing around, we really
need to buckle down and study hard for the exam. That’s right we have got a paper in
less than a week. You need to buckle down. Another hard working phrase for you is to
sweat blood. Now as you know hard produces sweat and some people work extraordinarily
hard so when you put extraordinary effort to complete the task, your hard work is compared
to sweating blood. Now this expression is used, when you have bright success because
of hard work. You are sweating blood. For example you may say it to someone, I had to
sweat blood to get this business running. Sweating blood. Another phrase that you may
want to use to express how hard you working is by the sweat of your brow. Now if you are
doing hard in physical labor, this when you earn by the sweat of your brow. You are working
so hard that your head has starting to sweat. For example immigrants have to work by the
sweat of their brow, just to get into any new country. The sweat of their brow. They
are working so hard. Up next is a phrase, I have my work cut out for me. Now as you
now sometimes you need to work against the deadline and get those assignments on time.
However the work seems to be even harder when what you are going to do is extremely difficult.
So the expression, I have my work cut out for me is used to say that you have difficult
work to do. I have my work cut out for me. Now to accomplish a work you’ve got only
short time to do so. An example of using this phrase could be I do not wish to be disturbed
I have my work cut out for me this afternoon. I have my work cut out for me. I hope that
this phrase helps you. Up next is expression Swamped. Now swamped, this word means to be
over swamped with work. And it can also be used to say that you have too many problems.
In a sentence you could say, I am swamped with constant phone calls, there’s just
so much work for me to do. You are swamped. Your work load has swamped you, you’ve got
too many things to do. Another expression to show how hard you are working could be
work your fingers to the bone. Now have you ever been tired at the end of a hard day’s
work? Well if you have then you have probably worked your fingers to the bone. Now this
is a way of saying that you have worked to the point of exhaustion. You have worked your
fingers to the bone. An example of this phrase could be, As children it would break our heart
to see our mother work her fingers to the bone. She is bending over back to them and
working her fingers to the bone. Another phrase that you could use, so show how hard you are
working is to, give it a 110%. Now this expression is used to reply how you have made the maximum
possible efforts. If you are a student working of your science project, you might say I’ve
given my project a 110%, I know that it’s going to be a huge success. People would usually
say putting a 100% but to put in a 110% means you have gone further. Our next phrase is,
Raise the bar. Now when you work hard, you strive to create something extraordinary.
And the expression for raising the bar, means that you are working too hard to raise the
standard of quality, for something, even higher. You have raised the bar. An example of this
expression could be, we rehearsed day & night and this performance is definitely going to
raise the bar. It is going to be beyond expectations and better than we thought. Raise the bar.
Up next is the expression, Stay ahead of the game. Now this is an expression that is used
to show, that you work harder than anyone else on the job and I’m sure some of you
know what I mean. You have got more knowledge and more expertise compared to others because
of your hard work. An Example of using this phrase could be, To grow up the corporate
ladder, its important to stay ahead of one’s game. To stay ahead of the game you are reading
into to what has expected and you are going past it. You are staying ahead of the game.
Thank you so much for joining me in today’s lesson now if you do know any other ways to
say you work hard, then please leave a comment in the section below, we would love to hear
from you. I’ll be back next time with some more lessons but before I go, why don’t
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Kat and thank you for joining me in today’s lesson of working hard. Take care and keep smiling :)