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tough sledding
Idioms and Phrases
Difficult work or progress, as in This bill faces tough sledding in the legislature . This idiom transfers the route on which a sled can travel to other kinds of progress toward a goal. It was first recorded as hard sledding in 1839. For the antonym, see easy sledding .Example Sentences
On the track, though, itâs been tough sledding.
âI thought we got off to a really good start in our rhythm. After that it was tough sledding.â
After a promising start 20-18 start his first three years that included a pair of bowl appearances, itâs been tough sledding for Justin Wilcox who is 10-18 in the past three years.
The 89 yards on that drive accounted for almost a third of the Seahawksâ 279 yards on a day when the offense had a lot of tough sledding on a field that was wet with a persistent rain.
Itâs tough sledding for Republicans in Fulton County, which Joseph R. Biden Jr. won with 72.6 percent of the vote in the 2020 election.
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Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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