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Hard time   /hɑrd taɪm/   Listen
Hard time

noun
1.
A difficulty that can be overcome with effort.  Synonym: rough sledding.  "Analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers"
2.
A term served in a maximum security prison.





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... wild desolate place in the midst of seas and lakes, with here and there a forest of trees. The first people to settle here were some German tribes, and a hard time they had of it. First of all they had to build strong dykes or embankments round the place in which they were going to encamp, so as to keep out the sea and the waters of the rivers, which wandered ...
— Little Folks (November 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... had a hard time of it with her family of seven children, and if kind neighbors had not aided, there would have been actual want. And surely one can not blame the widow for "marrying for a home" when opportunity offered. Only one out of that first family ever achieved eminence, and the second ...
— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... moved over to Dreier's. That poor woman will have a hard time getting her rent. And whatever she has, she'll get rid of it. Why, a fellow like ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... listener. "Yes, I thought she did very well. We went to school together, an' Mary Anna had a very hard time; trouble was, her mother thought she'd given birth to a genius, an' Mary Anna's come to believe it herself. There, I don't know what we should have done without her; there ain't nobody else that can write poetry between here and 'way ...
— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett
... our men were unchaining one of our wagons and rolling it out of the way. I ran across to see what was happening. In came Lee himself, followed by two empty wagons, each driven by one man. Everybody crowded around Lee. He said that they had had a hard time with the Indians keeping them off of us, and that Major Higbee, with fifty of the Mormon militia, were ready to take us ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London


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