hard time
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
hard time (countable and uncountable, plural hard times)
- (colloquial, countable) Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
- They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.
- 2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric:
- The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.
- (colloquial, uncountable) A prison term.
- Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.
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Translations[edit]
difficulties
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Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “hard time n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang