elbow grease
- Nghĩa tiếng Việt
- Sức lực bỏ ra kỳ cọ
- Định nghĩa tiếng Anh
- Hard physical effort put into scrubbing or polishing something by hand.
Ví dụ: That oven door will come up fine with a bit of elbow grease.

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Từ vựng bảo trì nhà cửa theo văn phong báo cáo khảo sát như elbow grease, immaculate, botched và ramshackle, dùng để đánh giá công việc sửa chữa được thực hiện tốt hay tệ.

Ví dụ: That oven door will come up fine with a bit of elbow grease.

Ví dụ: He potters about the shed all Sunday afternoon.

Ví dụ: He's fastidious about keeping the bathroom spotless.

Ví dụ: Her kitchen was always immaculate, not a crumb in sight.

Ví dụ: The grungy old carpet needed replacing.

Ví dụ: She had the whole house spick-and-span before the guests arrived.

Ví dụ: Leaving raw meat out is completely unhygienic.

Ví dụ: Somebody had to daub filler over the crack before painting.

Ví dụ: A botched repair left the pipe leaking worse than before.

Ví dụ: Rethreading that tiny screw is fiddly without proper glasses.

Ví dụ: He cannibalised an old bike to fix this one.

Ví dụ: He bodged the shelf back together with tape.

Ví dụ: The ramshackle old shed leaned dangerously to one side.

Ví dụ: The slapdash repair job fell apart within a week.

Ví dụ: The inspector declared the balcony structurally unsound.

Ví dụ: The tape was just a stopgap until we could buy a new hinge.

Ví dụ: You have to scour the sink or the mark stays.
