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put one's hand to the plow
vs
roll up one's sleeves
put one's hand to the plow
roll up one's sleeves
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, up, one's, sleeves.
To prepare to work.
How often have the words
put one's hand to the plow
and
roll up one's sleeves
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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