at work vs in gear

at work

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  • Working, in the process of doing work. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, work. At one's workplace. 

  • At play, in action. 

in gear

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  • In a state of readiness or activity. 

How often have the words at work and in gear occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )