hard going
English
Phrase
- (especially reading and study material) Difficult to understand and enjoy.
- 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
- THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] Its only noticeable defect is inconsistency in presentation and loose editing, which make its use harder going for the amateur than need be.
- (of a task) Difficult and requiring a lot of effort.
References
- “hard going”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “hard going” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “be hard going” in the Collins English Dictionary
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