donkey work
Work that is difficult, boring, and routine.
Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work, and even the company's dirty work?
donkey
UK /ˈdɒŋki/ US /ˈdɑŋki/
noun 5
Definitions
noun
1
A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
Lost last Saturday between twenty and thirty shillings they that have found it please to leave it heare there is five shillings reward by Wm. Roberts that goeth with a Donkey with many thanks
DONKEY, donkey dick, a he, or jack ass, called donkey, perhaps from the Spanish, or don like gravity of that animal, entitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter
2
A stubborn person.
3
A fool.
4
A small auxiliary engine.
5
A box or chest, especially a toolbox.
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