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requiring considerable physical or mental effort
- she loves coming up with the "big idea" but hates the actual pick-and-shovel work of starting a new business
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Antonyms for pick-and-shovel
- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
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“Pick-and-shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pick-and-shovel. Accessed 19 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of pick-and-shovel was in 1858
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