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词汇 have your work cut out for you
释义
Idiom
have your work cut out for youhave (your) work cut out (for you)
if you have your work cut out, you have something very difficult to do.
We're training a completely new team, so we've got our work cut out for us.Have you seen the state of the garden? She'll have her work cut out to get it looking nice in time for the summer.
(often in future tenses)
idiomhave your work cut out for you(also have your work cut out BrE)difficult used in order to say that someone will have to work very hard in order to achieve something:Dani has her work cut out for her keeping those kids amused.You're going to have your work cut out just learning the basic skills. There's no way we can do more than that in two weeks.
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have (one's) work cut out

To have much work to do to complete a particular task. I knew I had my work cut out for me when I saw how messy the play room was.

have your work cut out

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have your work cut out for you

INFORMAL
COMMON If you have your work cut out or have your work cut out for you, you have a very big and difficult problem or task to deal with. Williamson has his work cut out to turn around a team which has not won a league game since October. She'll have her work cut out for her getting a class of forty kids under control..

have your work cut out

be faced with a hard task.

have your ˈwork cut out (to do something/doing something)

(informal) be likely to have difficulty doing something: You’ll have your work cut out to get there before nine. It’s 8.30 already.I won’t be able to come with you today. I’ve got my work cut out for me at the moment.
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