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hard time

noun

a period of difficulties or hardship.
Slang. time actually served in a prison or other penal institution:
He had merely been fined before, but now was sentenced to 90 days' hard time in the county jail.
give a hard time, Informal. to bother, annoy, or harass:
He gave me a hard time about the money I owe him.

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First recorded in 1905–10

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The Browns will have a hard time passing on the do-everything Hunter, even though they still need a quarterback.

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"I think he was just in a bloodlust for any taxi driver who had given him a hard time," Terry says.

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Foster Wells: Public Enemy, I remember I gave them a hard time when they came.

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You’d have a hard time explaining this to someone in a way that doesn’t seem dystopian.

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It’s something that I think most people in medicine have a hard time reconciling with.

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