have your work cut out (for you)
Definition
› to have something very difficult to do: She'll really have her work cut out to finish all those reports by the end of the week.Complicated and difficult to doDifficult to understand
(Definition of have your work cut out (for you) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- advanced adjective
- ambitious adjective
- arduous adjective
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- at a push idiom
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