work your fingers to the bone
work your socks off
work your tail off

"You have been working your fingers to the bone so that I should be clothed.

Do you really think it's worth it, working your fingers to the bone for another hamper?"

Oh, yes, Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone.'

'You worked your fingers to the bone over the last week - and Missus Donovan knows it as well as I do.

"Well, I hope you're prepared to work your fingers to the bone," Vanyel replied, snatching up the leather case and carefully encasing his gittern.

And maybe if you have worked your socks off for 50 years, then going through the Panama Canal or visiting the Arctic in your own flat might be appealing.

Tired of working your tail off just to break even?

If you were a jester, they'd work your tail off, but not as a magician.

You can work your tail off and not succeed."

Nothing more upsetting than to work your tail off and not be able to get something to work that should.

"You work your tail off at practice," said Reeves.

"You've got to work your tail off," he said.

But-listen carefully-once it's rolling, you two must stop working your tails off, too.

And you'll work your tail off.

"Don't get the idea you won't be working your tails off, still-because you will.

"I tell the kids what Vince Lombardi said, and that is, you have to work your tail off to try to make it happen," he said.

Be- fore I have you work your tail off to find our security leaks, the least you can do is watch a little of our success."

"You're putting in the hours working your tail off, and then you realize you're underpaid," said Mr. Long, an immigrant from Jamaica.

But you're goddamned right," he added, his eyes flashing, "when you say that I'll work your tail off while you're still a Central Worlds ship."

"My wife and I farm; you get up in the morning and you work your tail off," Mr. Tester said in an interview.

You've worked your tail off for far too long, and you've finally reached a point where you can leave behind the desk, the boss and lunch at the same old place day after day.