Hard yakka

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun phrase 1.2.1 Usage notes

English

Pronunciation

IPA: /hɑ:d 'jækə/

Noun phrase

hard yakka (uncountable)

1. (Australian, colloquial) hard work

   • 1988: The men who did all the hard yakka believed in a short cut – shoot the bastards; it was cheaper and easier. — Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked
   • 1991: somebody sits down and does the solid, hard yakka of talking his way through with the waterside workers and with the union movement generally — Kim Beazley, Australian House of Representatives [1]

Usage notes

The conventional colloquial phrase for hard work (of any kind).