Elbow grease
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Elbow grease or literally Elbow oil in French is an idiom for working hard at manual labour. It is a figure of speech for humorously indicating nothing else but manual work is required.
It is sometimes reported in the form of a snipe hunt, a prank where an apprentice or recruit is sent on an errand to retrieve "elbow grease" by their supervisor.
In popular culture[]
- GMC's advertisement for their heavy duty vans and trucks shows a few men failing to move a small boulder. Frustrated and defeated, at once a GMC van backs onto the scene with the surprise of the men upon discovering several large barrels of elbow grease in the rear of the van.
- In the role playing video game Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the blacksmith Sunshine from the town of Yallam reforges rusted items, boasting "A little elbow grease, and it'll make something great!" [1]
- In the first season of the online web series Red vs. Blue, the characters Simmons and Grif send the Red team's new recruit, Private Donut, on a fool's errand to buy some elbow grease and headlight fluid from a non-existent store.
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