Work like a Trojan old-fashioned phrase informal
If someone "works like a Trojan", he or she works extremely hard or intenselyfor a long time.
I am really working like a Trojan to prepare for the final exam.
We'll be working like Trojans for the next two months.
He works like a Trojan to save enough money for an abroad trip.
She worked like a Trojan to bring up 5 kids.
actions are more important than words
To work very diligently and energetically
To work or do your job
Use most of one's time working for others
The entertainment industry and those who work in it is more exciting and dazzling when compared to any other
The verb "work" should be conjugated according to its tense.
As mentioned in both Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, the Trojans were renowned as hardworking, industrious people. During the 19th century, the Victorian admiration for these classical times saw the advent of these expressions, which are first attested from c.1846.
To be very wet
Because of forgetting bringing an umbrella, I look like a drowned rat when it rains.