at work on
Synonyms
Examples
If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
I have just finished one painting and am already at work on the preliminary drawings for the next one. I must do something in order to get rid of such habits or I won't manage to find time for any vacation. I have had this new painting in my mind since January, and must get it down on canvas.
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.