as much as you can do
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› If you say something is as much as you can do, you manage to do it, but with great difficulty: I felt so ill this morning, it was as much as I could do to get out of bed.Complicated and difficult to doDifficult to understand
(Definition of as much as you can do from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- advanced adjective
- ambitious adjective
- arduous adjective
- at a push idiom
- awkward adjective (DIFFICULT)
- fiendish adjective
- fierce adjective
- formidable adjective
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- gruelling adjective
- obstinate adjective
- onerous adjective
- painstaking adjective
- problematic adjective
- punishing adjective
- tough adjective (DIFFICULT)
- toughen verb (GET DIFFICULT)
- tricky adjective (DIFFICULT)
- unresolved adjective
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