have a time of it
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But at the wedding I'll have a time of it; for nobody can go it like the Screamer.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
When we two get together, we have a time of it; I, lauding my boy; she, praising hers.
From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
"Poor devil; he will have a time of it, with the mole-hills and the thistles, and all those ghosts."
From Barnaby A Novel by R. Ramsay
Between Joy's dancing and my dreaming, those poor teachers have a time of it.
From The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan by Lizette M. Edholm
The Deacon was a distant relative of the dead man, and it was generally admitted that he "would have a time of it" in administering upon the estate.
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
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