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have the devil's own job

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have the devil's own job doing something/to do something   (old-fashioned)
to spend a long time trying to do something difficult I had the devil's own job to find a parking space near here.
See also: have, job


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But when he had drawn and engaged his youthful antagonist he discovered that, far from disarming him, he would have the devil's own job of it to keep from being killed.
 
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