noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hard/tough row to hoe
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Improving schools with little funding is a tough row to hoe.
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They have a hard row to hoe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Graham Booth is using a 12-row Garford hoe .
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He'd poked at the soil with a hoe to give it a fresh look.
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He's saving three pounds a week and putting it in the post office at hoe .
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The hoes and rakes are still there, leaning against the wall, useless.
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The cattle are not used for draught purposes, since the fields are tilled with the hoe .
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Their time is constantly spent in tilling the soil, manuring it with ashes, raking and hoeing it with wooden hoes.
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We found him in a field with a hoe .
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You run in the compound, your grub hoe held at port arms.