Adjective : an Augean chore. From Dictionary.com.
I mean, as regards what he called his Augean stables task? ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Mayor's Parlour] Reference
The word "Augean" is sometimes used by itself, too -- it has come to mean "extremely difficult and usually distasteful.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Augean Stables report the latest case of Pallywood. From Wordnik.com. [The return of Pallywood] Reference
Today, Greece's public finances are an Augean Stable. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning up Greece's Augean Stable] Reference
Here then is a set of Augean Stables ripe for cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-30] Reference
He went off mumbling into the deep, dark Augean confines of his flat. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
Augean Stable left to it by forty years 'eminently active legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Augean Stables by Marta Steele on Friday, Nov 7, 2008 at 11: 22: 27 AM. From Wordnik.com. [The Augean Stables of America] Reference
Augean Stables by Stokey Pipes on Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 at 10: 41: 31 AM. From Wordnik.com. [The Augean Stables of America] Reference
West Indies, and cleanse the Augean stables of our Post Office system there. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
Historian Richard Landes on Augean Stables followed the case from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Another century, another trial] Reference
They might find one hiding between Pegasus and the unicorn in the Augean stables. From Wordnik.com. [Blair's Dentistry Policy Starts to Bite] Reference
But the task is vast, it is herculean, like unto the cleaning of the Augean stables. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Eurystheus set Hercules the task of cleaning out these Augean stables in a single day!. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Maybe so with the Augean stables assailing the collective nostril now one gets confused. From Wordnik.com. [Labour`s Pants Aflame] Reference
However, attention once a year is better than none at all, as said of the Augean stables. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
I like the analogy with the Augean stables; I find it quite funny and perfectly appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
His Augean stable, if not wholly clean, was at least free from the more dangerous impurities. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Hercules might labor now; there are other stables than the Augean; and not yet are all Hydras slain. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
The boiler and the power house squads were taken on, and reported gloomily about their Augean stable. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
There is enthusiasm for the opposition's promise to clean out the Augean stables of Japanese politics. From Wordnik.com. [John Feffer: Revolution in Japan] Reference
Augean stable to cleanse in reducing my papers to simplicity, and burning accumulations of thirty years. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
But even the Augean task of putting the Manse in order, did not satisfy the gigantic activity of Mr. Touchwood. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
The Alphaios is navigable, after all, this was the mighty river Hercules diverted to wash out the Augean stables. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Hercules, seeing that his special stall was considered to be the foulest in the whole range of the Augean stables. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Last spring every exertion of the whole combined pitchforks was required to cleanse that Augean stable: can Sir Robert. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
In both cases, supposedly conservative governments permitted massive financial fraud and left an Augean stable of debt. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning up Greece's Augean Stable] Reference
Then we will need another Hercules, plus the entire London Fire Brigade with pressure hoses to clean the Augean Stables. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
That, and I believe she will divert the River Alpheus to clean the Augean Stables otherwise known as our house in Venice. From Wordnik.com. [i'm nothing without my wifi bluetooth sunglass viewer dock] Reference
Do not PUNCHINELLO'S subjects all know that whisk brooms sweep clean, and that no broom swept cleaner the Augean stables of. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870] Reference
Augean task of cleansing the administration of both government and army of the corrupt practices which had long prevailed in both. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
Days were spent trying to clean up Ballah East; had Hercules been with us he would have diverted the Canal through the Augean camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
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