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English Idiom: Keep your nose to the grindstone
Keeping their noses to the grindstone is one of the things that the Japanese do best.
When you keep your nose to the grindstone, you concentrate on your work for a long time.
Japanese are specialists at persevering with a task until the job is done and done correctly.
There are times when you don’t feel like giving your all at work.
Those are the times when you have to double down and keep your nose to the grindstone.
As I said, the Japanese are specialists at continuously concentrating on their work for a long time, which is great because that’s what helps to make this such a great country.
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