back-breaking

Traditionally, agricultural workers have sung songs while performing back-breaking labor.
Traditionnellement, les travailleurs agricoles ont chanté des chansons tout en exécutant le travail de retour.
If one had spent the whole day doing back-breaking labor, it would probably be easy to sleep.
Si l'on avait passé toute la journée à faire du travail de retour, il serait probablement facile de dormir.
We have forgotten about the whippings, humiliation, isolation, back-breaking work, and physical and moral injuries.
Nous avons oublié les fouets, l’humiliation, l’isolation, le travail pénible, les blessures physiques, psychiques et morales.
That means the bosses are able to cut wages and benefits, speed up production to a back-breaking pace, violate the most elementary safety measures, and trample on the rights of workers almost with impunity.
Cela signifie que les patrons sont en mesure de diminuer les salaires et les avantages sociaux, accélérer la production à un rythme éreintant, violer les mesures de sécurité les plus élémentaires et fouler aux pieds les droits des travailleurs presque en toute impunité.
And I don't like weeding, and I don't like back-breaking labor.
Et je n'aime pas désherber, et je n'aime pas les travaux qui cassent le dos.
Take back the streets from the clumsy armies of undead with neck-snapping, decapping, back-breaking punk rock attitude!
Remontez les rues des armées amorphes d’undead avec le brise-nuque, le decapping, l’attitude destructrice de punk !
Take back the streets from the clumsy armies of undead with neck-snapping, decapping, back-breaking punk rock attitude!
Remontez les rues des armées amorphes d’undead avec le brise-nuque, le decapping,... Get Medieval 1.1
Women, in addition to their chores of fetching water from 20 kilometers away, have to participate in this back-breaking exercise.
Les femmes, en plus de la lourde tâche d'aller chercher de l'eau à 20 kilometers, doivent participer dans cet exercice si mauvais pour le dos.
For him it was loose change, but for these people it was making more in one day than for years of back-breaking work in the fields.
Pour lui, c'était une bagatelle. Mais pour ces gens, c'était gagner plus en un jour que leurs revenus de labeur de plusieurs années.
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