Dictionary of American idioms

LABOR OF LOVE

labor of love: translation

alabor 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.

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Mary hates knitting, but she made a sweater for her boyfriend. What a labor of love.

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{n. phr.} Something done for personal pleasure and not pay or profit. * /Building the model railroad was a labor of love for the retired engineer./

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