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devil of a job

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devil of a job and devil's own job
the most difficult task. We had a devil of a job fixing the car. It was the devil's own job finding a hotel with vacancies.
See also: devil, job
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Getting older horses straight after a long time off is a devil of a job, especially if they have leg problems.
ON THE MOVE by The Racing Post (London, England)
I could certainly have done with some of that comfort as I sat alone in my student bedsit, hundreds of miles from home wrestling with Beowulf and Tennyson's Maud (it was a devil of a job prising them apart).
The past is another country and I want to move there by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; GIVING BORO A DEVIL OF A JOB Top, Cristiano Ronaldo holds off the challenge of Middlesbrough's Sunderland old boy Julio Arca.
Battling Boro still can't lift festive gloom; Record low for the New ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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