This is something we're both going to have to put our backs into, and basically it's pick-and-shovel work.

It's hard, tough pick-and-shovel work, and you've just got to do it and do it and do it.

"Whatever that was they hit, it'll take a lot of pick-and-shovel work to set it right again."

In contrast to this, the 2d Battalion's pick-and-shovel work on the barren hill paid large dividends.

A logical conclusion: Plenty of pick-and-shovel work before dawn.

You could make ahell of a hole with dynamite, a hole that would take a long time tofill by pick-and-shovel work.

"Lot of pick-and-shovel work down there," Willis observed.

Here it's work, but not pick-and-shovel work.

A lot of the things that we do just take a lot of pick-and-shovel work, and you've got to keep working at it again and again and again.

It was pick-and-shovel work for Chandler.