What does take some doing mean?

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take some doing

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.36 in modern English

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takes some doing (present, singular) taking some doing (participle, present) took some doing (past) taken some doing (participle, past)

take some beating

take some beating

What does take some doing mean?: To be hard work, to require a lot of effort.

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