donkey work BrE informal

The real donkey work was actually done by those guys.

Hence the donkey work is taken out of learning how to set everything up.

"Donkey work is probably all you're good for, but that's what's required today."

"Quinn is willing to let me do the donkey work.

It would be a long, wearying task, and donkey work had never held any interest for him.

And two, I'd say it was more like donkey work.'

And how predictable that it's you and me doing the donkey work.

They look like bombs, the chief electrician thought as the younger men did the donkey work.

Donkey work all done by women like the one who suspected me of evil intentions on the phone yesterday.

Just launched is a website that takes the 12 providers mentioned above and does a lot of the donkey work for you.

You can hire a drilling rig and I might want two of your men to do the donkey work."

Eventually, through more donkey work, he found out.

Instead users can let the Sparcstation do the donkey work.

Those without expertise were doing the donkey work.

The actual donkey work involved with be outsourced to India, so we will eventually rule the world.

I don't do donkey work; I leave that to professional administrators.

Just a lot of hard donkey work.

Donkeys have no objection to donkey work, but they cannot stand being taken for racehorses or tractors.

Some analysts express concern that the new systems will be less secure and incapable of doing donkey work like batch processing.

Actually, the Chief was doing the donkey work, assembling totals of income, expenses, deductions, etc.

I just do the donkey work.

After that it was just a matter of a lot of donkey work, much of which the computers did."

While she did the donkey work.

"You'll have to do the donkey work, skipper."

The editor and his close team are highly paid but the donkey work (no offence to donkeys) is done by people on low salaries.