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tough sledding



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Idioms and Phrases

Difficult work or progress, as in This bill faces tough sledding in the legislature . This idiom transfers the route on which a sled can travel to other kinds of progress toward a goal. It was first recorded as hard sledding in 1839. For the antonym, see easy sledding .
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Example Sentences

He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.

"Tough sledding," he wheezed, as he sat upon his barrow handles and wiped his brow with a bandanna handkerchief.

It has been pretty tough sledding waiting for the next Australian steamer, but, thank God!

"Tough sledding we'd have had with an automobile over those hills," he said.

"It's been pretty tough sledding out there in the mining country," he said.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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