have a (difficult) job to do something
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have a (difficult) job doing do something — have a (hard/difficult) job doing/to do sth idiom to have difficulty doing sth • You ll have a job convincing them that you re right. • He had a hard job to make himself heard. Main entry: ↑jobidiom … Useful english dictionary
have a (hard) job doing do something — have a (hard/difficult) job doing/to do sth idiom to have difficulty doing sth • You ll have a job convincing them that you re right. • He had a hard job to make himself heard. Main entry: ↑jobidiom … Useful english dictionary
have a (hard) job to do something — have a (hard/difficult) job doing/to do sth idiom to have difficulty doing sth • You ll have a job convincing them that you re right. • He had a hard job to make himself heard. Main entry: ↑jobidiom … Useful english dictionary
have a job to do something — have a job doing/to do/something british informal phrase to have difficulties doing something We had quite a job finding your house. Thesaurus: to be in, or to get into a difficult situationsynonym … Useful english dictionary
have the devil's own job to do something — have the devil s own job (doing something/to do something) old fashioned to spend a long time trying to do something difficult. I had the devil s own job to find a parking space near here … New idioms dictionary
job — W1S1 [dʒɔb US dʒa:b] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(work)¦ 2¦(duty)¦ 3¦(something you must do)¦ 4 on the job 5 I m only/just doing my job 6 it s more than my job s worth 7 do the job 8 have a job doing something/have a job to do something 9 do a job on… … Dictionary of contemporary English
job — [ dʒab ] noun *** ▸ 1 work to earn money ▸ 2 particular piece of work ▸ 3 duty ▸ 4 a crime ▸ 5 something of particular type ▸ 6 something computer etc. does ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count work that you do regularly to earn money. When you ask someone… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
have — have1 W1S1 [v, əv, həv strong hæv] auxiliary v past tense and past participle had [d, əd, həd strong hæd] third person singular has [z, əz, həz strong hæz] [: Old English; Origin: habban] 1.) used with past participles to form ↑perfect tenses ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
have — 1 strong, auxiliary verb past tense had, strong, third person singularpresent tense has; strong, negative short forms: haven t, hadn t, hasn t 1 used with the past participle of another verb to make the perfect tense of that verb: We have… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
have — I [[t]həv, STRONG hæv[/t]] AUXILIARY VERB USES ♦ has, having, had (In spoken English, forms of have are often shortened, for example I have is shortened to I ve and has not is shortened to hasn t.) 1) AUX You use the forms have and has with a… … English dictionary
