hard time en · NOUN
Meanings
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(colloquial, countable) Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
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.
2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric:They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.
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(colloquial, uncountable) A prison term.
Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hard times | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
hard-times token · give someone a hard time
Translations (10)
de schwere Zeit (difficulties) · cmn 艱難時期 /艰难时期 (difficulties) · cmn 麻煩 /麻烦 (difficulties) · es mal trago (difficulties) · fi hankaluudet (difficulties) · cmn 困難 /困难 (difficulties) · fi vaikeudet (difficulties) · fr problèmes (difficulties) · gl tempos difíciles (difficulties) · cmn 受罪 (difficulties)