have the devil's own job

have the devil's own job

To have a difficult or frustrating time. I'm having the devil's own job getting this window open—I think it's been painted shut. We had the devil's own job convincing Grandpa to go to the doctor for that bad cough. I'm really bad with polynomials, so I had the devil own job doing last night's homework.
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