work away
Verb
Meaning
work away (third-person singular simple present works away, present participle working away, simple past and past participle worked away)
(intransitive, idiomatic, Ireland) Synonym of fire away
Synonyms
Examples
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
I get to my desk at eight in the morning and I leave it at seven in the evening and I just work away. I'm a work machine.
After a period in the mid-20th century when there was a strong tendency to attribute work away from Hubert, he has made something of a comeback in recent decades, but there is still a wide range of opinion among specialists.
Even after their fourth daughter, Katarina, was born, he continued to work away from home.
For many years they kept details of their work away from each other.