coalface

hiilikaivoksen rintaus, hiilen louhimispaikka puhekieltä The surface of coal exposed by mining, or a part of a coal seam that is currently being mined.
puhekieltä The end of a drift, entry, or room in a coal mine.
puhekieltä A place where difficult or strenuous work is done.
2006, Alexandra Walsham, Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700, Manchester University Press (ISBN 9780719052392)

Works of this kind are necessarily parasitic upon the research of other scholars and I should like to express my gratitude to all those whose hard labour at the coalface has made my own endeavours possible.

Lizzie had paid her own dues at the coalface of teething babies and gave the young mother an understanding grin in return.

However, my mother, who had been at the coalface of the marital collapse, felt the need to have an in-depth debrief.

But we both know that all of this wonderful equilibrium comes at a cost: there is the tacit understanding that it&39;s my turn to pursue my dreams whilst my husband slogs at the coalface.

While schools were seen to be at the coalface of administering arts education, teachers, artists and children were rarely consulted in relation to the development of arts education policy.

By all means look at streamlining systems, look at changing the way that you produce public services for sure, but please do not cut at the coalface. That goes for a teacher, it goes for a policeman and it goes for a nurse.

I wondered which next superstar I might have the privilege of seeing live at the coalface of stardom in Hollywood.