take some doing
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Matching the level of support at Wimbledon in 1973 will take some doing because, as in any workplace, there will be players prepared to cross a metaphorical picket line outside the entrance to Centre Court.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
It will take some doing to unseat Edgar, whose achievement has become so embedded in Seattle sports consciousness that it has taken on the aura of folklore.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
It’s going to take some doing to integrate Indigenous conservation with the ocean-based blue economy that’s clearly driving the research agenda.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2022
In Mr. Bouadla’s telling, however, that will take some doing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Of course, it'll take some doing at the bank.
From Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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