hard to take
idiom
: difficult to be around due to being rude, annoying, etc.
He's a little hard to take sometimes.
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Five years later, the thought of the Los Angeles icon being gone is still hard to take in.
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Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
If Breaking Bad was a show about a man willingly becoming evil, Better Call Saul was a show about a man trying so hard to take the righteous path, but falling victim to everything put in his way.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
The result was a season that was hard to take a temperature of.
—Scarlett Conlon, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
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Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
If Breaking Bad was a show about a man willingly becoming evil, Better Call Saul was a show about a man trying so hard to take the righteous path, but falling victim to everything put in his way.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
The result was a season that was hard to take a temperature of.
—Scarlett Conlon, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Hard to take.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20to%20take. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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