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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In reading a book by a science writer who lives in London and New York, I was struck by the phrase, “The theory would come later. Before that came a lot of hard graft.” Euh, there would be need to be some tricky bribery? Maybe they would need to do some surgical vegetative fusion, or attach an extra limb? The Collins site finally explained that graft is “British informal” for hard work. Not all work is brute labour, however; some requires trade skill, technique, finesse.
But to get to the top and be a star of the beautiful game, there is a lot of hard craft and sacrifices involved. Grueling 2-3 hour sessions on the field, gym workouts to get that extra muscle to outdo your adversary
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whilst my knowledge and my experience might be at a decent level now, it’s certainly been a long process and it’s required a lot of hard craft to get to where I am.
American transcript of British climber
Did around our pool surrounds and neighbours pool ourselfs, got 7 cub/mtrs crushed limestone and 3 cub/mtrs sand and cost about $700 and a lot of hard craft, all done a week before xmas.
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.Netrolller 3D beat me to the punch bowl on this one, in other contexts, those of medicine and tree husbandry. See Craft-versus-graft.
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