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one should expect to do hard or difficult work and not try to avoid doing it
one should expect to do hard or difficult work and not try to avoid doing itThe mother said that a little hard work never hurt anyone and asked her son to clean the kitchen.
(UK) An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom's meaning is literally something said or written that is unbelievable, rumor, over embellished, the result of malicious village gossip etc.