Difficult Phrases

Phrases

• A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
• A big ask
• A bridge too far
• A good man is hard to find
• A hard man is good to find
• A tight corner
• A two pipe problem
• Above my head
• Adversity makes strange bedfellows
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• American Home has an edifice complex (American Home Magazine advertising slogan)
• An uphill battle
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As hard as a rock
• As hard as iron
• As hard as nails
• As stubborn as a mule
• As tough as old boots
• As tough as they come
• As tough as tough
• Awkward age
• Awkward squad
• Be hard put to
• Be under no illusion
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Blow hard
• Built Ford tough (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Bumpy ride
• By the balls
• Come down hard on
• Come wind come weather
• Complex fracture (a multiple fracture)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Counsel of perfection
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Cut a hog
• Dickens of a time
• Die hard
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Do it the hard way
• Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
• Don't get a complex, get Amplex (Amplex Deodorant advertising slogan)
• Donkey work
• Drive a hard bargain
• Easier said than done
• Fall on hard times
• Go hard
• Go hard or go home
• Good morning, Mr. Phelps (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hang tough
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• Hard act to follow
• Hard and fast
• Hard aport
• Hard astarboard
• Hard at it
• Hard case
• Hard cases make bad law
• Hard cash
• Hard cheddar
• Hard cheese
• Hard copy
• Hard done by
• Hard drinker
• Hard evidence
• Hard facts
• Hard feelings
• Hard hearted
• Hard hitting
• Hard knocks
• Hard labour
• Hard lines
• Hard liquor
• Hard luck
• Hard nosed
• Hard of hearing
• Hard on
• Hard on the heels of
• Hard pressed
• Hard put to it
• Hard row to hoe
• Hard shell
• Hard stuff
• Hard times
• Hard to come by
• Hard to pin down
• Hard to place
• Hard to swallow
• Hard to take
• Hard up

• Hard words
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hard, cold cash
• Have a cross to bear
• Have your work cut out for you
• Heavy duty
• Heavy going
• Heavy weather
• Hold hard
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• Hurry hard
• I can't do this
• Impossible is nothing (Adidas advertising slogan)
• In a hole
• In a jam
• In a spot
• Inferiority complex
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• It's a jungle out there
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
• It's tough at the top
• Keep your head above water
• Learning difficulties
• Like herding cats
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Like pulling teeth
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Make heavy weather of
• Make life difficult
• Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise movie and television series title)
• No hard feelings
• No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
• No mean feat
• Not a chinaman's chance
• Not impossible
• Old habits die hard
• One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
• Out of your depth
• Over your head
• Play hard to get
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Poisoned chalice
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Pretty pickle
• Put in the hard yards
• Put the hard word on
• Raise the bar
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Rough ride
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• School of hard knocks
• Selling sand to Arabs
• Selling snow to Eskimos
• Some assembly required
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Sticky situation
• Sticky wicket
• Stiff competition
• Take a cold hard look
• Take a hard line
• Tall order
• Tall task
• Thankless task
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
• The judgement of Solomon
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• These little things are sent to try us
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
• Tongue twister
• Tough Juice (Nickname of Caron Butler)
• Tough customer
• Tough love
• Tough luck
• Tough nut to crack
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Tough pill to swallow
• Tough row to hoe
• Tough shit
• Tough titty
• Tricky Dicky (Nickname of Richard Nixon)
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Up against it
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going (A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy)
• When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
• When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Working hard or hardly working?
• Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)