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hard put to do something

finding something difficult to do. None of the family I was staying with spoke English and I was hard put to recall my high school French. You'd be hard put to find any other college students more deserving of the award.

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The landlady, who governed herself with much difficulty, began now the necessary preparations; for as to Susan, she was utterly rejected, and with such disdain, that the poor wench was as hard put to it to restrain her hands from violence as her mistress had been to hold her tongue. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context The simplest abstraction was practically beyond our thinking; and when one did happen to think one, he was hard put to communicate it to his fellows. Before Adam by London, Jack View in context More results

The landlady, who governed herself with much difficulty, began now the necessary preparations; for as to Susan, she was utterly rejected, and with such disdain, that the poor wench was as hard put to it to restrain her hands from violence as her mistress had been to hold her tongue.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.

The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context

The simplest abstraction was practically beyond our thinking; and when one did happen to think one, he was hard put to communicate it to his fellows.

Before Adam by London, Jack View in context

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