Definition
Arduous work, performed in a vigorous, committed manner.
Reliable, useful, capable service.
Origins
An allusion to stouthearted, dutiful labor performed by a yeoman.
In Context
- "Near-synonym: good job"
- "He hath done yeoman's service, and proved himself staunch and faithful."
- "I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair and labour'd much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service."
- "[O]n many occasions his liberality did him genuine yeoman's service."
Also Said As
- yeoman's work
- yeoman's labor
- good job