ROUGH SLEDDING

Pronunciation (US):

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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)

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