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pick-and-shovel

/pik-uhn-shuhv-uhl/US // ˈpɪk ənˈʃʌv əl //

镐头和铲子,镐头,镐镐,拾荒者

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.

Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.

  • She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

  • No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

  • Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.

  • They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.

  • We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.