slog away

From slog +‎ away.

slog away (third-person singular simple present slogs away, present participle slogging away, simple past and past participle slogged away)

1. (intransitive, informal) to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner
   • 2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59:

     The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories. But such victories are given qualitative value when it is an artist who carries them off […]

• “slog away, phrasal verb.”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present, retrieved 27 March 2025.