Hard Time

Definitions: Hard Time

Hard Time

Noun

1. A difficulty that can be overcome with effort; "we had a hard time getting here".

2. A term served in a maximum security prison.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Difficulty

Have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to the pinch; bear the brunt.

Crosswords: Hard Time

This fellow's had a hard time. Seems a talking llama has upset this little fellow here. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

They must be havin' a hard time getting gigs. (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Dave Thomas)

Yeah, well I'm having a hard time concentrating. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

I'm going to have a hard time explaining this to my dad. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You're gonna have a hard time finding a man. You're a snob from the projects! (Living Single; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Tom Anderson)

You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good ("You're Only Human (Second Wind)"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

A boy is born in hard time Mississippi ("Living for the City"; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Hard Time (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• John Constantine, Hellblazer: Hard Time (reference)

• Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do With Grammar (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

Have a hard time remembering things that just happened. (references)

A person who has MEN1 or who has a positive MEN1 gene mutation may have a hard time deciding whether to have a child. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "hard time": have a hard time ♦ have hard time ♦ having hard time. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

поблъсквам се (do one's utmost, have a hard time). (various references)

Chinese 

好容�" (have a hard time, with great difficulty). (various references)

Finnish

olla lujilla (be hard pressed, have a hard time). (various references)

French

souffrir (have hard time). (various references)

Hungarian

sok nehézségen megy keresztül (have a hard time of it), nehézségekkel küzd (have a hard time of it, to be hard up), nehéz dolgokon megy át (have a hard time of it), nehéz élete van (have a hard time of it), gondokkal küzd (have a hard time of it), bajokkal küzd (have a hard time of it). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辛い目に会う (to have a hard time of it), 憂き目�'見る (to have a bitter experience, to have a hard time of it), 梃子摺る (to have a hard time), 一苦労 (a hard time, pains). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとくろう (a hard time, pains), うきめ�'みる (to have a bitter experience, to have a hard time of it), つらいめにあう (to have a hard time of it), て�"ずる (to have a hard time, to have much trouble, to not know how to handle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ardhay imetay.(various references)

Portuguese

sufoco (suffocation), pouco produtivo (I am hungry). (various references)

Spanish

tiempo difícil. (various references)

Turkish

sıkışma (having hard time, incarceration, jamming, pressure, squeeze). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Hard Time" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hardtime. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: airthed, readmit.

-2 letters: admire, airted, dearth, dirham, dither, dreamt, haired, harmed, hatred, hermai, hermit, imaret, marted, mither, mitred, thairm, thiram, thread, tirade.

-3 letters: admit, aider, aimed, aimer, aired, airth, amide, armed, armet, dater, deair, death, demit, derat, derma, dimer, dream, earth, hared, harem, hated, hater, heard, heart, herma, hider, hired, ihram, irade, irate, ither, madre, mated, mater, media, merit, mired, mirth, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, rated, rathe, redia, remit, retia, rimed, tamed, tamer, tared, terai, tharm, their, therm, third, timed, timer, tired, trade, tread, triad, tried.

-4 letters: adit, ahem, aide, airt, amid, amie, amir, arid, dame, dare, dart, date, dear, derm, diet, dime, dire, dirt, dita, dite, dram, drat, eath, edit, emir, emit, hade, haed, haem, haet, hair, hame, hard, hare, harm, hart, hate, head, hear, heat, heir, herd, herm, hide, hied, hire, idea, idem, ired, item, made, maid, mair, mare, mart, mate, math, mead, meat, meta, meth, mire, mite, raid, rami, rate, rath, read, ream, rhea, ride, rime, rite, tahr, tame, tare, team, tear, term, thae, them, thir, tide, tied, tier, time, tire, trad, tram, trim.

-5 letters: aid, aim, air, ait, ami, are, arm, art, ate, dah, dam, die, dim, dit, ear, eat, edh, era, eta, eth, had, hae, ham, hat, hem, her, het, hid, hie, him, hit, ire, mad, mae, mar, mat, med, met, mid, mir, rad, rah, ram, rat, red, rei, rem, ret, ria, rid, rim, tad, tae, tam, tar, tea, ted, the, tie.

+1 letter: diathermy, hardiment.

+2 letters: diathermic, dichromate, hardiments, mithridate, rheumatoid, timberhead.

+3 letters: antheridium, bichromated, diathermies, dichromates, hemihydrate, mithridates, thermalized, timberheads.

+4 letters: achromatized, headmistress, hemichordate, hemihydrated, hemihydrates, hereditament, multiwarhead, radiochemist.

+5 letters: archimandrite, diathermanous, hemichordates, hereditaments, hermaphrodite, hydromagnetic, moderatorship, multibranched, radiochemists, rhadamanthine, thermodynamic.

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