tough row to hoe
Example Sentences
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“It’s a tough row to hoe, no question,” she told an Amherst College interviewer in 2009, describing the origins of her career as a writer.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022
“Politically, it sends a message to challengers that you have a tough row to hoe to remain competitive,” he added.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022
But in this seriocomedy by A. Rey Pamatmat, two motherless siblings largely abandoned by their father have a tough row to hoe, while secretly maintaining their own household in the rural Midwest.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2013
We have a tough row to hoe but our guys are excited about it.
From Reuters • Feb. 26, 2013
Life’s gunn be a tough row to hoe for you if you don’t learn you caint be believing everything folks tell you, not even growned folks.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
