light work

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Building a new packinghouse was light work compared to building new juicing facilities.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Many hands make light work in those situations.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

"Djokovic messaged me to say 'you have to pay me'," he said in his on-court interview after making light work of 19th seed Paul, to laughter from an adoring crowd.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

You can see the leopard print pattern in the petri dish where the phage have been making light work of a bacterial infection that modern medicine was struggling to shift.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

Then we stretched it out to scrape it, and hung it again to rinse it, many hands making light work.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck