- take a lot of -
- take a lot of (or some) -be difficult to do or effect in the specified way
he might take some convincing
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take a lot out of you — ◇ If something takes a lot out of you or (Brit) takes it out of you, it requires a lot of work or energy and causes you to feel physically or emotionally tired. That interview really took a lot out of me. • • • Main Entry: ↑take … Useful english dictionary
take [a lot of/some etc.] stick — get/take [a lot of/some etc.] stick British, informal, British, informal to be criticized or laughed at because of something that you do. I get a lot of stick from people at work over the way I dress. (often + from) The government has come in for … New idioms dictionary
take a lot of stick — get/take [a lot of/some etc.] stick British, informal, British, informal to be criticized or laughed at because of something that you do. I get a lot of stick from people at work over the way I dress. (often + from) The government has come in for … New idioms dictionary
take some lot of doing — take some/a lot of ˈdoing idiom (informal) to need a lot of effort or time; to be very difficult to do Main entry: ↑takeidiom … Useful english dictionary
take it lot out of somebody — take it/a lot ˈout of sb idiom (informal) to make sb physically or mentally tired • Taking care of small children really takes it out of you. Main entry: ↑takeidiom … Useful english dictionary
take a lot out of somebody — take it/a lot ˈout of sb idiom (informal) to make sb physically or mentally tired • Taking care of small children really takes it out of you. Main entry: ↑takeidiom … Useful english dictionary
take a lot of nerve — 1. tv. to be very rude; to require a lot of rudeness (to behave so badly). □ He walked out on her, and that took a lot of nerve! □ That took a lot of nerve! You took my parking place! 2. tv. to require courage. □ He climbed the mountain with a… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Gonna Take a Lot of River (Mississippi, Monongahela, Ohio) — Infobox Single Name = Gonna Take a Lot of River Artist = The Oak Ridge Boys from Album = Monongahela Released = July 1988 (U.S.) Format = 7 Recorded = 1988 Genre = Country Length = 3:00 Label = MCA Records Writer = Mark Henley and John Kurhajetz… … Wikipedia
take a lot of doing — … Useful english dictionary
take some doing — phrase used for saying that something will be very difficult to do It will take some doing to finish this before five o’clock. Thesaurus: difficult to do and involving a lot of effortsynonym Main entry: doing * * * take some ˈdoing | take a lot… … Useful english dictionary
