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tough row to hoe

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tough row to hoe and hard row to hoe
Fig. a difficult task to carry out; a heavy set of burdens. It's a tough row to hoe, but hoe it you will. This is not an easy task. This is a hard row to hoe.
See also: hoe, row, tough
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He has a tough row to hoe up there," says Doug Benson, founder of Marriage Equality Minnesota.
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That is perhaps as it should be, but it leaves the artists with an exceedingly tough row to hoe, even without having to go up against the ghostly legions of artists past.
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Publishers were more sympathetic, more interested in literature for its own sake, but it was still a tough row to hoe.
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