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Hard time   /hɑrd taɪm/   Listen
Hard time

noun
1.
A difficulty that can be overcome with effort.  Synonym: rough sledding.  "Analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers"
2.
A term served in a maximum security prison.





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"Hard time" Quotes from Famous Books



... a very hard time of it, said she, between your father and you; for, seeing your dislike, I have more than once pleaded for you: but all to no purpose. I am only treated as a too fond mother, who, from motives of a blamable indulgence, encourage a ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... serenity in respect to it, but he can never be jaunty and flippant. He can never slap life upon the back and call it by familiar names. He may hold that the world is indisputably growing better, but he will need to admit that the world is having a hard time in ...
— The Bibliotaph - and Other People • Leon H. Vincent
... behind us were all suffering, and some of them were sure to have a hard time if such weather continued. At the same time I felt comparatively sure ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... glad you made arrangements for the play, the one I don't like, and I hope the other fellow is right. These three-cornered French plays are going to have a hard time over here in the future unless they contain something that is pretty big, novel, or human. The guilty wife is a joke here now, and they have lots of fun when they play these scenes in these plays. The American and English play is different. ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
... gone through a hard time these last four weeks, and no wonder if she broke down under the strain of a situation such as that which ended in Lady Ogram's death. He would make up to her for it all. She should understand him, and rest in perfect ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing


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