They seldom labour their wits on thankless task.
I will not do such a thankless task of comparing failure cases.
Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry?
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all." — J. August Strindberg.
It was also thankless.
Football referees have a thankless task.
Those thankless, fall in trouble, can't be saved.
Divorced dads offer their condolences and mutter guiltily that being a stepmother is "the most thankless task in the world".
Raise your hand for the thankless job nobody else wants to do. Your colleagues may think you are a toadie, but so what?
SAVING the world is a thankless task.
Collecting garbage is a thankless job, but someone's got to do it...
There is only one activity more thankless than predicting the future - and that's publicly sharing your predictions.
She played a thankless role.
What a thankless child you are, just idle and good-for-nothing!
Spontaneous efforts from the Chinese community itself are probably the best way to provide the impetus for the learning of the Chinese language. But to many who are used to decades of passivity, this will probably seem like a formidable and thankless job.
Nobody was keen to take on such a thankless task.
a thankless role, task
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
How sharer than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. -- Shakespeare
So, like I said, some people are very grateful andthankful, but overall nursing is a kind of thankless position, you just have todo the best you can.
Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless.
grading papers is a thankless task.
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