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Idioms and Phrases

Require considerable effort, as in It'll take doing to get the whole house painted in a week . This expression sometimes is put as take some doing , as in You want the President to come? That'll take some doing! [First half of 1900s]
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Example Sentences

They'd be beautiful if you'd take care of them in one-tenth the time you take doing nothing.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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