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ROUGH SLEDDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A difficulty that can be overcome with effort
Example:
analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers
Synonyms:
hard time; rough sledding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("rough sledding" is a kind of...):
difficulty (a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome)