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David Siegel
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Consider the situation where I am handling a project, and now my manager assigns me one more.
So I want to express to him that it will be hard work. I am in software, so taking on two projects will require more hours of sitting.
I

I thought of the following ways to express it:

  1. With the two projects, I will be burning candles at both ends
  2. With the two projects, I will have my nose to the grindstone.
  1. With the two projects, I will be burning candles at both ends
  2. With the two projects, I will have my nose to the grindstone.

I am trying to use idioms here. Are they correct usage?
Any

Any other way to express the same with impactful words

Consider the situation where I am handling a project, and now my manager assigns me one more.
So I want to express to him that it will be hard work. I am in software, so taking on two projects will require more hours of sitting.
I thought of the following ways to express it:

  1. With the two projects, I will be burning candles at both ends
  2. With the two projects, I will have my nose to the grindstone.

I am trying to use idioms here. Are they correct usage?
Any other way to express the same with impactful words

Consider the situation where I am handling a project, and now my manager assigns me one more.
So I want to express to him that it will be hard work. I am in software, so taking on two projects will require more hours of sitting.

I thought of the following ways to express it:

  1. With the two projects, I will be burning candles at both ends
  2. With the two projects, I will have my nose to the grindstone.

I am trying to use idioms here. Are they correct usage?

Any other way to express the same with impactful words

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Expressing hard work with idioms

Consider the situation where I am handling a project, and now my manager assigns me one more.
So I want to express to him that it will be hard work. I am in software, so taking on two projects will require more hours of sitting.
I thought of the following ways to express it:

  1. With the two projects, I will be burning candles at both ends
  2. With the two projects, I will have my nose to the grindstone.

I am trying to use idioms here. Are they correct usage?
Any other way to express the same with impactful words