have a time of it
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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
Won't I have a time of it all round!
From A Life For a Love A Novel by L. T. Meade
Oh, my dear, I did have a time of it!
From The Children of Wilton Chase by L. T. Meade
My, but I did have a time of it!
From The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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