Meaning: The ants worked very hard all the time, without stopping.
Choice of Words: Workers: People or animals that do work. Toiled: Worked very hard. Day and night: All the time, without stopping.
Alternative Expressions
The workers worked really hard all the time.
Meaning: This means the same thing as the first sentence, but it uses different words to say it.
Choice of Words: **Workers** are people who do jobs. **Worked** means they did their jobs. **Really hard** means they worked with a lot of effort. **All the time** means they worked all day and all night.
The workers were busy bees!
Meaning: This means that the workers were working very hard, like bees that are always busy collecting nectar and making honey.
Choice of Words: **Workers** are people who do jobs. **Busy bees** is a fun way to say that they were working very hard. It's like saying they were as busy as bees in a hive.