Peg Away

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Familiar Quotations: Peg Away

Author	Quotation
Theodore Roosevelt	I am hard at work on my message to Congress, and accordingly shall not try to go out or see any one either this afternoon or this evening. All of this work is terribly puzzling at times, but I peg away at it, and every now and then, when the dust clears away and I look around, I feel that I really have accomplished a little, at any rate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression: Peg Away

Modern Translation: Peg Away

Language		Translations for "peg away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ngulem në punë. (various references)

Arabic		‏واصل العمل, ‏واظب (persevere, stick, worry at). (various references)

Bulgarian		работя упорито (peg at), къртя (flop, peg at, pick), бачкам (dig, grub, peg at). (various references)

Czech		pracovat o sto šest. (various references)

French		bosser. (various references)

German		nicht locker lassen (persist). (various references)

Hungarian		kitartóan dolgozik (to ply), gürizik. (various references)

Italian		incaponirsi. (various references)

Pig Latin		egpay awayay

Romanian		munci din greu la (peg away at). (various references)

Russian		упорно добиваться, корпеть (plug away at, pore over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		marljivo raditi. (various references)

Spanish		trabajar con ahínco, machacar (carry on, crush, grind, harp on, natter, pound, pound away, pulverize, slash, stomp). (various references)

Swedish		jobba på. (various references)

Turkish		azimle çalışmak (peg along). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Peg Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-p-w-y"
	-2 letters: agape.
	-3 letters: away, gape, gapy, gawp, page, peag, wage, yawp.
	-4 letters: aga, age, ape, awa, awe, aye, gae, gap, gay, gey, gyp, paw, pay, pea, peg, pew, pya, pye, wae, wag, wap, way, wye, yap, yaw, yea, yep, yew.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, aw, ay, pa, pe, we, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-p-w-y"
	+3 letters: passageway.
	+4 letters: passageways.
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Definition: Peg Away

Expression using "peg away": peg away at. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.