uphill work

Trying to stay on the blind side of a one-eyed cat is uphill work.

From outside your circle if needed — eventually you might want to work on retraining your people to recognize you as someone who also needs attention vs. always providing it, but that’s emotionally uphill work.

But there’s uphill work ahead for Democrats, to be sure.

The sledge-meter, ignoring the hard uphill work we had done all day, said we had come only nine miles.

When he was invited to speak at an Anglo-American dinner in London in 1921, Churchill found it “uphill work to make an enthusiastic speech about the United States”, he told his wife, Clementine, “when they are wringing the last penny out of their unfortunate allies”.