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  • It follows that the more ‘bang for your buck’ these kinds of attention-grabbing games require, the more donkey-work it takes to set them up.

    Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » The value of Casual Games 2006

  • Anyway, those shrinks work out the J&I with the relevant lines, and fire that down the tube to one of you guys -- cause they're too busy to do that sorta donkey-work.

    AI - Mark 3 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Anyway, those shrinks work out the J&I with the relevant lines, and fire that down the tube to one of you guys -- cause they're too busy to do that sorta donkey-work.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Now, equality is something that you can preach for as long as you can stand but the landowners still get all the perks and the donkeys still do all the donkey-work.

    Tony's Farm 2006

  • We'll do the donkey-work and let them up above make the decisions.

    Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994

  • Mr Brent probably does the donkey-work - sees to the caterpillars and so on.

    Five Go To Billycock Hill Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1957

  • She had done all the donkey-work and licked things into shape.

    In the Fifth at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

  • She had done so much for Moira, been so nice to her, taken such a lot of donkey-work off her shoulders " and all she got was that scornful, hateful name " Saint Catherine.

    In the Fifth at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

  • We don't need Moira now the donkey-work is done. '

    In the Fifth at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

  • London before the bust-up came, and the Dean sent for me to-day and said it seemed a pity for me to slog at the donkey-work again, when I knew it.

    Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

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