Idiomatic expression: "Toil and moil"

" Toil and moil " is an idiomatic collocation meaning hard work, drudgery, labour. Both toil and moil individually allude to the same notion, i.e. that of heavy, hard labour. In particular: toil: hard work, especially work that makes you physically tired, to work hard/ to move in particular direction, slowly and with great effort. E.g Lindi has achieved her comfortable life only after years of hard toil. After toiling away at work all week, it's good to relax. Toil Thesaurus a long way to go, to be snowed under(with sth), break your back, beaver away, to break your back, bandh, buckle, buckle down, burn the candle at both ends, to burn the midnight oil, caseload, chore, do (all) the donkey work, drive/ work yourself into the ground, drudgery, errand, flog yourself to death, get/ pick up steam, get/ set to work, go into sth, go/ jump through hoops,graft, grind, groundwork, hammer away at, hold down a job, hot-desk, hot-desking, in the line of duty, keep/ put your nose to the grindstone, knuckle down, labour, legwork, lie down on the job, life's work, make (all) the running, occupation, on call, manque, pick up/ take up the slack, plod, plug away, pull/get your finger out, run around after, run yourself into the ground, sweat over sth, swing into action, take sth in, there' s no rest for the wicked, thirsty work, trudge through, work like a dog, work till/ until you drop, work-to-rule, work your fingers to the bone, workflow. (n) blunder, doddery, falter, halting, hardly/ barely put one foot in front of the other, hobble, limp, lumber, lurch, reel, schlep, shamble, shuffle, slog, stagger, trumble, waddle moil: to work hard, drudge, to be in continuous agitation, churn, swirl, hard work, confusion, turmoil. (Chiefly dialectal): to make wet or dry E.g. Miners all day in the sunless recesses of the earth. As a conclusion, one could employ the collocative expression "toil and moil" in order to stress the amount of labour, physical exertion and drudgery they put on a performance.