hack away
Intermediate (B1) neutral
To keep cutting at something hard, or to keep working on something difficult without stopping.
"The explorers spent hours hacking away at the dense jungle undergrowth."
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[music] desperate attempts to hack away the problem,
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or hack away in a black and green terminal.
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discussing and hack away at it critically in during
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where we can just come on and hack away.