TODAY'S IDIOM: LABOUR OF LOVE / LABOR OF LOVE

"LABOUR OF LOVE / LABOR OF LOVE"

A labour of love is work that's done for pleasure or for someone's benefit rather than for money. 

Example: Hiroko's website was a labour of love that he made so that people could learn about jazz and blues music.

Por amor al arte.

Example sentences:

• Bill would never waste his time on a labor of love. He's only interested in making money / Bill nunca perdería su tiempo por amor al arte. El solamente está interesado en hacer dinero.

• Karen's book is a labour of love, so she doesn't really care about making money from it / El libro de Karen es por amor al arte, así que realmente ella no se preocupa por hacer dinero de él.

Additional examples:

• The research took three years but it was a labor of love.

• He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.

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