hard yakka

== English == === Etymology === From hard +‎ yakka, from Yagara yaga (“work”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɑːd ˈjækə/ === Noun === hard yakka (uncountable) (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Hard work. 1991, Kim Beazley, Australian House of Representatives[2]: somebody sits down and does the solid, hard yakka of talking his way through with the waterside workers and with the union movement generally