Talk:work out

work out
Sense: I suggest we replace this definition line with since, after all, you can also work a peg into a hole, work a peg in (with location understood), work a peg from a hole, etc. Perhaps add another usex for other not-as-an-idiom meanings. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 19:19, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 1)  To extract gradually.
 * Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.
 * Yes. I would start by just adding and usage examples at [[work]]. I'd like to work such NISoP definitions completely out of all phrasal-verb entries, perhaps even treating Category:English phrasal verbs as a cleanup list. DCDuring TALK  00:50, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Support this proposal. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:13, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Done. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 16:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Possible missing senses
Chambers 1908 defines this phrase as "to expiate" and "to exhaust". Equinox ◑ 19:55, 22 March 2020 (UTC)