a labor of love
a labor of love
Fig. a task that is either unpaid or badly paid and that one does simply for one's own satisfaction or pleasure or to please someone whom one likes or loves.
Jane made no money out of the biography she wrote. She was writing about the life of a friend and the book was a labor of love.
Mary hates knitting, but she made a sweater for her boyfriend. What a labor of love.
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- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- accordance
- address
- address oneself to sth
- a fine state of affairs
- a (good) working over
- a hard row to hoe
- all dressed up and nowhere to go
- all of a size
- All systems (are) go.
- a love-hate relationship
- a mean streak
- a millstone about one's neck
- amuse so with sth
- a nature stop
- and those
- a nine days' wonder
- an inkling (about so or sth)
- announce
- answer for so
- answer so back
