Work & careers
put in the work
make sustained effort
To put in the work means to make a steady effort to achieve or maintain something.
Hear it in real life
Can their friendship recover?
Yes, if they are both willing to put in the work.
If you want the business to grow, you have to put in the work.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We put effort in the work every day.
Say: We put in the work every day.
Learners may place “in” after “work” by analogy with “put effort into something.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
put in the work; put in the work to do something
Your turn: say it out loud
If you want the business to grow, you have to put in the work.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
put in the work
make sustained effort
“If you want the business to grow, you have to put in the work.”
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