bad time

bad time
*a hard time & *a bad time & *a rough time
trouble [over something]; unnecessary difficulty. (*Typically: have \bad time; give someone \bad time.) •

Please don't give me a hard time.

The clerk got a hard time from the boss, so he quit.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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