Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - The daily grind for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

What do you think the title of the article means?

Answer

The word grind is used to mean something that is hard work, tiring and boring. People often refer to their jobs as their daily grind; to do without something is a phrasal verb which means to manage without something. It is usually in the negative (I can’t do without it) and means we can’t manage / survive without something.