hard time

noun — 2 senses

hard time

noun

1

Colloquial Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.

They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.
The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric:

2

Colloquial A prison term.

Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.

Derived terms: give someone a hard time, hard-times token

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