| 单词 | hard time |
| 释义 | hard timeSEE SYNONYMS FOR hard time ON THESAURUS.COM nouna period of difficulties or hardship. Slang. time actually served in a prison or other penal institution: He had merely been fined before, but now was sentenced to 90 days' hard time in the county jail. give a hard time, Informal. to bother, annoy, or harass: He gave me a hard time about the money I owe him. Origin of hard timeFirst recorded in 1905–10 Words nearby hard timehard-surface, hardtack, hardtail, hard tick, hard-ticket, hard time, Hard Times token, hardtop, hard tubercle, hard ulcer, hard up Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with hard timehard time Also, hard times. A period of difficulty or hardship, especially financial hardship. For example, Since Mom died, Christmas has been a hard time for Dad, or It's been hard times for both of them since they split up. It is also put as have a hard time, as in I'm having a hard time finishing this book. Charles Dickens used Hard Times as the title of a novel about poverty (1854). A more recent version is have a time of it, which despite its ambiguity (not specifying either “good” or “bad”) nearly always means “experiencing difficulty”; for example, We had quite a time of it in that hurricane. [Late 1300s] give someone a hard time. Annoy or harass someone. For example, Don't let him give you a hard time; he's often late himself. [Colloquial; early 1900s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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