sledding Idiome
tough sledding
hard work, slow progress, heavy going, rough going We've had tough sledding on our building projects. Rainy weather has caused a lot of problems.
tough sledding|hard sledding|rough sledding|sleddi
n.,
informal Difficulty in succeeding or making progress.
Jane had hard sledding in her math course because she was poorly prepared. When Mr. Smith started his new business, he had tough sledding for a while but things got better.
easy sledding
easy sledding Effortless progress, as in
It's easy sledding from here on. This expression alludes to coasting smoothly down a hill and was first recorded as
smooth sledding in 1898. Also see the antonym
tough sledding.
sledding
sledding see
easy sledding;
tough sledding.