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Elbow grease is an idiom for working hard at manual labour .. idiom. idiom. manual labour. manual labour. It is a figure of speech for humorously indicating nothing else but manual work is required .. figure of speech. figure of speech. It is sometimes reported in the form of a snipe hunt , a prank where an apprentice or recruit is sent on an errand to retrieve `` elbow grease '' by his supervisor .. snipe hunt. snipe hunt. The prank was used in the web series Red vs. Blue where two of the Red soldiers tell their new recruit to go fetch `` elbow grease and headlight fluid '' from the store .. Red vs. Blue. Red vs. Blue. Red. List of Red vs. Blue characters#Red Team. their new recruit. List of Red vs. Blue characters#Donut. Their prank backfires when the recruit instead asks for the enemy 's flag from the enemy 's recruit , mistaking the other base for the store .. GMC 's advertisement for their heavy duty vans and trucks shows a few men failing to move a small boulder .. GMC. GMC ( automobile ). Frustrated and defeated , at once a GMC van backs onto the scene with the surprise of the men upon discovering several large barrels of elbow grease in the rear of the van .. GMC. GMC ( automobile )