Noun
daily grind (plural daily grinds)
(idiomatic) The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.
As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. Florence Nightingale
a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs." Dean Acheson
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. Martin Mull
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. Wisława Szymborska
And so as time goes on with the daily grind, one day Shepard is missing from the return home from working the bogland, hadn’t been seen since the morn. Source: Internet
“Chronic stress is the daily grind that wears people out day after day. Source: Internet