{"id":73349,"date":"2020-03-23T11:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73349"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:41:38","slug":"work-your-fingers-to-the-bone-english-speaking-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/work-your-fingers-to-the-bone-english-speaking-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Your Fingers To The Bone | English Speaking Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To work your fingers to the bone<\/strong> is to work very hard for a long time. Because you have been putting in so much effort over a long period of time, your fingers have reduced to mere bones with hardly any skin or flesh covering them.<\/p>\n<p>The expression <strong>wear your fingers to the bone<\/strong> also means the same.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been working my fingers to the bone to get the roof repaired before monsoon sets in.<\/li>\n<li>She worked her fingers to the bone to bring up her four children.<\/li>\n<li>My father worked his fingers to the bone to give us a good education.<\/li>\n<li>I have been working my fingers to the bone to finish the project before the deadline.<\/li>\n<li>They have been working their fingers to the bone to get the venue ready for the function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Which one of the following idioms has a similar meaning to the idiom work your fingers to the bone?<\/p>\n<p>a) Be all fingers and thumbs<br \/>\nb) Burn the candle at both ends<br \/>\nc) Feel green around the gills<br \/>\nd) Have fingers in the till<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>b) Burn the candle at both ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To work your fingers to the bone is to work very hard for a long time. Because you have been putting in so much effort over a long period of time, your fingers have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,2178,2177],"class_list":["post-73349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-wear-your-fingers-to-the-bone","tag-work-your-fingers-to-the-bone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73350,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73349\/revisions\/73350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}