query: Is there an idiomatic way to say that it took a lot of time and effort for someone to do something?
positive_passages.docid: 21313
positive_passages.text: Is there an idiom available, that is exactly opposite to "Cake walk" or "Child's play"?
negative_passages.docid: 107985
negative_passages.text: Had done / had been doing
negative_passages.docid: 111125
negative_passages.text: help someone [do]/[to do]/[in doing]/[on doing] something?
negative_passages.docid: 115590
negative_passages.text: What's a common phrase that means "To put it simply though not 100% correctly"?
negative_passages.docid: 52225
negative_passages.text: expression "caught between a rock and a hard place"
negative_passages.docid: 146566
negative_passages.text: English idiom for 'bad consequences stemming from too much ambition'
negative_passages.docid: 124182
negative_passages.text: Phrase or idiom for funnelling efforts in wrong direction
negative_passages.docid: 43920
negative_passages.text: Idiom that means trying to save something that is beyond saving
negative_passages.docid: 15922
negative_passages.text: How does "proof of effort" make a question better?
negative_passages.docid: 11228
negative_passages.text: What do you call a person who makes easy things difficult?
negative_passages.docid: 88231
negative_passages.text: Idiom to describe something that has little to no effect?
negative_passages.docid: 54630
negative_passages.text: Word/phrase to mean something that just happens once
negative_passages.docid: 154084
negative_passages.text: Having done something,... vs Doing something,
negative_passages.docid: 53359
negative_passages.text: An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end
negative_passages.docid: 111051
negative_passages.text: When may adjectives precede determiners? (E.g. too difficult a task)
negative_passages.docid: 156715
negative_passages.text: Idioms for saying when one's bad situation compounded with more problems
negative_passages.docid: 131837
negative_passages.text: Is there a synonym for lazy with a positive connotation?