I've even seen them at sidewalk cafes. Inside and outside, they're toiling away.
Kids barge into workrooms and upset deadlines.
Although you may not hobnob with anybody else, you're all there together teleworking and as busy as bee.
Disputes break out because someone has beaten you to your favorite table.
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toil away barge into upset deadlines hobnob with beat someone to companionship on one's lonesome sour notes time-wise
────────────────────────────── toil away, あくせく働く、骨身を削る ────────────────────────────── If you toil away, you work hard at something continuously over a long period of time, especially something that is unpleasant and physically very tiring.
ex) Our mothers toiled away in the kitchen most of their lives.
────────────────────────────── barge into, …に押しかける、…に入り込む ────────────────────────────── If you barge into a place, you rush or push into it in a rough and rude way.
ex) Most women would have come barging into the kitchen with ironic or unhelpful suggestions.
If you disapprove of the way in which someone is spending a lot of time with a grope of people, especially rich and powerful people, you can say that he or she is hobnobbing with them. [INFORMAL]
ex) This gave Bill an opportunity to hobnob with the company's president, board chairman, and leading executives.
────────────────────────────── beat someone to, …に対して（人）を出し抜く ────────────────────────────── If you intend to do something but someone beats you to do it, they do it before you do.
ex) Don't be too long about it or you'll find someone has beaten you to it.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Working Out of a Third Place (2) 8/29-30 2007"
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