drudgery

Unfortunately, as Barnard would lament in 1839, that law was in practice a “dead letter,” with about two-thirds of children in mill towns left utterly without any education apart from their long hours of drudgery.

It provides relief from life’s hardships, drudgery, and setbacks.

It was just so funny to switch gears and go into academia and hear just the day-to-day drudgery of being on campus and see the little signs of, “Don’t heat broccoli in the microwave, it stinks up the whole office.”

Desperate for a break from office drudgery but scared of not making ends meet?

"What Oasis do is simple, and I don’t mean that in a bad way, it's songs of escapism and going off and doing your own thing and being free of the drudgery of daily life and work, but done in a simple, slightly raucous, singalong way."