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It itches and it burns but I still go to work every morning

Popularized by James S. Murray in the famous hidden camera tv show Impractical Jokers. This was said during his punishment where he was forced to read strange lines from flash cards during a speech.

The phrase can also be shortened to, “it itches and it burns”. This is most commonly used as a response to being asked to do something.
Craig: Hey Phil, I need those papers on my desk by the end of the day.

Phil: But it itches and burns sooooo.

or

Phil: But it itches and burns but I still go to work every morninggggg.

In this situation it clearly displays that Phil doesn’t feel like doing those papers.

It itches and it burns but I still go to work every morning: A slang and informal way to tell someone that you do not want to do what they are telling you.
by ItItchesAndBurns43 December 29, 2023
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Hard Work

Something Erling Braut Haaland does every single day and night which is why he is so good at football.
Interviewer: "What's your secret? You've scored 10 times now in the champions league."
Haaland: "To work hard."

Hard work is the process of persevering through something that requires a great deal of effort and endurance.
by Fotball_Emil August 21, 2022
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My own work

No you are making shit up because you want to tell yourself that but I said my ideas were better and they are. My rhetoric. My argument. You used it to get Trump elected. So they ARE better because I AM better. Than you. Fucking Kim Kardashian. Taylor Swift. Every name on the list and you were more concerned with YOUR OWN CELEBRITY than MY THING and now there is very real possibility that you both murdered Liam Payne and failed to prevent perfectly preventable child-murder. Right? Like, I stopped my child murder and my suicide guy. Like... What were you doing this whole time that you didn't say your child from the murder? Stealing my ideas and living off the proceeds of my wildly superior mind-brain? Some of you are. Some of you WERE doing that.
Hym "No the money comes from my own work and you are lying and making shit up to sandbag me because the second your fans find out about the cover-up and what you're been doing for the past 4 years then you are DONE-ZO! You didn't save your child murder kids. I did. I saved my suicide guy. You got Suchir Balaji, my AI whistleblower, kill or made him kill himself because you greedy fucks are trying to scavenge off my thing. So no fucking AI copyright shit for any of YOU."
by Hym Iam October 5, 2025
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workful

Full of work, busy, marked by excessive work
How was your weekend? Unfortunately, very workful; I pulled double shifts both days.
by grp October 13, 2010
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prep-work

Generally applied to preparation routines associated with sodomy. Usually consisting of the hosing out of the bowels and lubing up like a the asshole is made of banana peel insides.
Kyle asked for anal, but I let him know there would be a lot of prep-work required if he didn’t want to bathe in shit and blood.
by Johnson’s Son March 9, 2022
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work with kathryn hahn

doing something with someone for the sole purpose of making out with them

comes from aubrey plaza saying she joined the mcu to work with kathryn hahn. their characters later share an intense kiss
person 1: why did you go with her to the movies when you don't like films
person 2: i wanted to work with kathryn hahn
by elviri November 4, 2024
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Work

Is a term used by prison inmates who affiliate with inner prison gangs or cliques. Also can be used synonously as an alternate meaning to describe one or more newbie, lower and upper level urban gang members whom participate in the act(s) of putting in time by carrying out (commiting) tasks, specific odd jobs, individual job assignments, and loyalty tests instructed by senior members of the gang for the benefit of the gang.
"I put in WORK you know, I handled my shit! You know what I'm sayin."

"If HE wants us to have his back he'll have to put in WORK, to prove that he's legit ya know."
by Jinxty1 June 23, 2021
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