- Dirty work - 大家都不愿意的工作，吃力不讨好的苦差事，没回报又不光鲜的工作。
Stop filing and get one of the interns to do that dirty work
- Busywork – 耗时间又无成效的琐碎事情 work that keeps a person busy but has little or no actual value in itself.
We have to put in an eight-hour day, even if we do nothing but busy-work.
我们每天都得工作八小时，尽管除了那些无谓的琐碎杂事外啥也不做。
- talk shop – （informal） talk about business out of business hour, discuss work when not at work, especially in a way that other people find boring（在工作时间外）谈论自己的工作；搞得旁边的人很烦
- hold (keep) one’s end up/ hold up one’s end – perform your part adequately; 负起你那份责任, 做好你分内的事
The work is demanding, but he's able to hold his end up.
