work someone's ass off

English

Alternative forms

• work someone's arse off (British spelling)

Verb

work someone's ass off (third-person singular simple present works someone's ass off, present participle working someone's ass off, simple past and past participle worked someone's ass off) (American spelling)

1. (This entry is a translation hub.) (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) To work, or cause to work, excessively or to the point of exhaustion; see work + someone's ass off.

Translations

to work excessively

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: տքնել (hy) (tkʻnel), կաշվից դուրս գալ (hy) (kašvicʻ durs gal), ոռը ճղել (oṙə čġel) (vulgar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拼命工作 (pīnmìng gōngzuò), 做牛做馬／做牛做马 (zh) (zuòniúzuòmǎ)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: zich uit de naad werken
• Finnish: raataa (fi), tehdä töitä niska limassa, tehdä töitä hiki hatussa
• French: travailler comme un dératé, travailler comme un forcené
• Georgian: წელზე ფეხს იდგამს (c̣elze pexs idgams), წელს იწყვეტს (c̣els ic̣q̇veṭs), თავს აკლავს (tavs aḳlavs)
• German: sich den Arsch aufreißen (de)
• Greek: μου βγαίνει ο κώλος (mou vgaínei o kólos)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: agyondolgozza magát, halálra dolgozza magát, kipurcan, annyit dolgozik, beledöglik a sok munkába
• Italian: farsi un culo così
• Japanese: 身を粉にして働く (みをこにしてはたらく, mi-o konishite hataraku), 馬車馬のように働く (ばしゃうまのようにはたらく, bashauma-no yō-ni hataraku), がむしゃらに働く (がむしゃらにはたらく, gamushara-ni hataraku), 齷齪働く (あくせくはたらく, akuseku hataraku), あくせく働く (akuseku hataraku), 一生懸命に働く (いっしょうけんめいにはたらく, isshōkenmei-ni hataraku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: dar duro (pt)
• Russian: вка́лывать (ru) (vkályvatʹ) (colloquial), надрыва́ться (ru) (nadryvátʹsja), корпе́ть (ru) (korpétʹ), вьёбывать (vʹjóbyvatʹ) (vulgar) (also commonly distorted as: вья́бывать (vʹjábyvatʹ))
• Spanish: trabajar duro
• Swedish: jobba häcken av sig (sv)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to cause (someone) to work excessively

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: panna raatamaan, laittaa raatamaan
• German: den Arsch aufreißen (de)
• Hungarian: halálra dolgoztat, agyondolgoztat (hu)
• Portuguese: tirar o couro de

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Translations to be checked

• Russian: вка́лывать (ru) impf (vkályvatʹ) (colloquial), горба́титься (ru) impf (gorbátitʹsja) (colloquial), въёбывать impf (vʺjóbyvatʹ) (vulgar), въя́бывать impf (vʺjábyvatʹ) (vulgar)