Meaning of hard time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
   colloquial, countable
2. A prison term.
   colloquial, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.”

“The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.”

“Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.”

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