So was having a chat this evening with a friend and for some odd reason this came up.  We kept trying to determine what would come after thrice.  You say, at least have heard at some point in time in our lives  -  once, twice, thrice.  So we all make the assumption that it means 'three times'.  So is there something after thrice?  Doing some research, it appears, nothing ever came to continue down the path. 

Now the question is, would anyone actually ever use thrice in a sentence. Would you ever come up to someone and say ' are you still working out thrice a week?'  ?  Does it really fit into any real usage.  Can't really say so.  Where does the word come from even?  What was the intention?

 The best I could find were some references in Shakespeare, The King James Bible and some writing about the Roman times.  There was this band named 'thrice' also.  Which all i kept seeing in search engines were for their lyrics. Was a bit annoying when I was looking for something a bit more in depth.

maybe i'll keep digging. What else do I have to do. :)

So I was watching this new series on Fox.  Think it was Fox. Anyways, it is called DollHouse.    A show about mindless, programmable humans that can be geared to do anything that is imaginable for a price.  So while watching the show I heard the phrase, 'keep on'e shoulder to the wheel' nd hadn't really heard it before.  So felt i should look it up and see what it was all about.  One of the definition says 'work doggedly or persistently', or basically to keep on working hard.  It did fit for the context by which it was used in the movie.    As she was getting hunted down and kept plugging away to stay alive.

Some other similair phrases or terms were 'keep one's nose to the grindstone', 'plug away', and 'slog' . 

 Then, there was that word 'slog'.  Another term i'd never heard before. So while talking with a friend, who happens to live in england, mentioned this to him  and he went on to give me his version of the definition in his context.  One example I found   'an 18-hour slog in the hay fields'.

So this just goes to show my vocabulary sucks.