What does keep one's nose to the grindstone mean?

keep one's nose to the grindstone means "work doggedly or persistently".

What is another word for keep one's nose to the grindstone?

Close synonyms include plug away, peg away, slog, keep one's shoulder to the wheel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is keep one's nose to the grindstone a common word?

keep one's nose to the grindstone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

keep one's nose to the grindstone — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
work doggedly or persistently
“She keeps plugging away at her dissertation”
Synonymsplug away peg away slog keep one's shoulder to the wheel
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