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ROUGH SLEDDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rough sledding mean?
• ROUGH SLEDDING (noun)
The noun ROUGH SLEDDING has 1 sense:
1. a difficulty that can be overcome with effort
Familiarity information: ROUGH SLEDDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A difficulty that can be overcome with effort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
hard time; rough sledding
Context example:
analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers
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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