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Labor Love Work Expression Paid Painting Nursing Home

Idiom Labor of Love
Example He didn't get paid for painting the nursing home. It was a labor of love.
Meaning work done not for money but for love or a sense of accomplishment
Origin In the New Testament of the Bible there is a phrase about work done for pleasure without profit, "your work of faith and labor of love." The English expression "labor of love" became popular around the 17th century, when many people worked at something because they loved doing it and not for money. Also, "labor" and "love" both begin with the letter "l," and that alliteration helped make the expression easy to remember.

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