One Idiom One Day: Labour of love
It took him years to refurbish his ancestral house and make it liveable again, but in the end he did it and it was true labour of love.
a task done for the pleasure of doing it, not for gains or rewards; hard work done because you enjoy doing it
This phrase originated in the Bible and first appears in the King James Version (KJV) also known as the Authorized Version, which is the English translation of the Bible, written from 1604 to 1611.
E.g., The aquarium he built for his wife was a labour of love, and she loved to sit in front of it and watch the fishes.
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