picar pedra

Catalan

Etymology

Compare Spanish picar piedra.

Verb

picar pedra (first-person singular present pico pedra, first-person singular preterite piquí pedra, past participle picat pedra)

  1. to grind, to chip away (to make a lengthy and laborious effort)
    • 2019 June 13, Toni Polo Bettonica, quoting Joan Yago, “El teatre dels fills de la crisi”, in El País‎:
      Mira, el 2010 la cosa estava molt xunga. Si volíem fer teatre havíem de picar pedra.
      Look, in 2010 this was very difficult. If we wanted to do theatre, we had to make a big effort.
    • 2021, Oriol Romeu, Una temporada inoblidable […] , →ISBN, page 205:
      Amb l'esforç que costa poder agafar una bona seguida! I quan la tens, que difícil que és mantindre-la. Però què hi farem, tocarà continuar picant pedra. Ara, hi ha una cosa que tinc clara: a picar pedra no em guanyarà ningú.
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