uphill work
Example Sentences
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I think he was intended as a circus figure, a go-between linking the playful and the real, but it meant he had uphill work in a show that landed its comic hits through humorous updating.
From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2016
“There would be a lot of uphill work to do for cheese makers to convince consumers that their ‘salty white cheese in brine’ is feta.
From Time • Mar. 12, 2014
But it is uphill work, and Daniel Tarullo, a governor of the Federal Reserve, has acknowledged that “a clean and comprehensive solution is not in sight.”
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2012
Yet throughout that time storytelling has often been uphill work for ballet.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2010
Trying to stay on the blind side of a one-eyed cat is uphill work.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
