make hard work of
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To struggle to accomplish something.
Example Sentences
- "The motion is from the shoulder rather than from the elbow, moving the whole arm, and there is no need to make hard work of it."
- "I made hard work of a very easy task ."
- "Don't make hard work of it . An instrument in good condition is easy to blow when properly played."
- "Unfortunately, Versteegh made hard work of his task once again by using the rather difficult manuscript from Cairo, Dār al-kutub 242 (Versteegh describes this manuscript on p. 156 as "very hard to read, and we have managed to analyze only parts of it.")."
- "For arithmetic to-day, as the pupils made hard work of the examples yesterday, I changed only the numbers."
- "While we had made hard work of defeating Sheffield United in our FA Cup semifinal, Spurs were breezing past Burnley 3–0 in the other tie."
Inflected Forms
makes hard work of (present, singular)
making hard work of (participle, present)
made hard work of (participle, past)
made hard work of (past)
make heavy work of (alternative)