keep grinding: 5+ fun, funny, inspirational and delicious examples of grind & ground

the most popular application of the word  grind in recent years is as a noun or a verb to indicate hard work. like canelo alvarez grinding (training hard) for his fight with jaime munguía

@overtimeboxing Canelo in the lab getting ready for his May 4th fight 👀🔥 @canelo #caneloalvarez #caneloalvarez #canelo ♬ original sound – Overtime Boxing

or wallace

or kermit


the original idea of  grind  is to create friction between two solid things. like the tendency to constantly bite when nervous (grind teeth)…

lady grinding her teeth

she’s grinding her teeth

or to dance very closely and rub bodies (grind on)…

ñadu grinding on a dude in the club
sometimes grinding can be fun.

grinding can refer to a type of skateboarding trick where the friction is created between an object and the skateboard’s trucks (t-shaped metal that secures the wheels).

lady grinding a rail--vocabulario en inglés

grinding a rail (NimEuro19 via Grind TricksSkateboardingSkateparkSkateboarding Wiki:About )

meme of a senior citizen skateboarding wearing a shirt and tie the text reads work is tough daily grind---vocabulario en inglés  

laid back means relaxed

another way to use grind is to reduce to smaller particles, powder or dust. meat, pepper and coffee are common products to grind.

VLUU L100, M100 / Samsung L100, M100
a tube of ground beef from walmart. (netshark.us)

when coffee is ground right before drinking, it is referred to as freshly ground.

a coffee grinder
a coffee grinder

thus this classic joke from contrasting the irregular participle for the verb grind; ground, and ground, the earth’s surface. grinded is used as the past tense of grind too, but for this joke to work, it’s gotta be ground 💀💀

and a couple of grind idioms…

on christmas day 2014, gamers hoping to enjoy their gaming-related gifts on-line were denied (they couldn’t do it).  the playstation network and xbox live were offline as the result of a hack by a group known as lizard squad.

lizard squad grinding
a lizard squad profile picture from twitter

paul tamburro at craveonline.com included the incident in a slideshow about the year’s biggest hacks explaining that the lizard squad‘s hack…

saw the online servers for the ps4, xbox one, ps3 and xbox 360 come grinding to a halt.

come grinding to a halt is an expression that gives the idea of a big piece of machinery coming to a stop while making a horrible, metal on metal sound.  it is usually used when the stop is unwanted, as was the case with the x-box live and playstation networks.

daily-grind grinding
the daily grind sucks, but most of us would hate to see it come grinding to a halt

the expression daily grind indicates a routine that is repetitive & boring. the picture above effectively illustrates the connection between daily grind and come grinding to a halt.

tough means difficult

can u think of a situation that u can describe with the expression grinding to a halt? any doubts about how to use the variations of grind? post your examples or questions under leave a reply


 

 

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